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A Grace Paley Reader : Stories, Essays, and Poetry by Grace Paley
Category: Reference
One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017"A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley's writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and brilliant economy of words."A writer like Paley," writes George Saunders, "comes along and brightens languag ...Show more
Collected Stories by Grace Paley
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics
At long last, here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume. From her first book, The Little Disturbances of Man, published in 1959, to Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) and Later the Same Day (1985), Grace Paley's quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language h ...Show more
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
Category: Fiction
In this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture "the itch of the city, love between parents and children" and "the cutting edge of combat" (Lis Harris, Th ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley (Virago Modern Classic) by Grace Paley; George Saunders (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'This is a collection full of energy and stunning, quiet innovation ... it spills over with contempt, raucous humour, sadness and generosity. In it, life and language are synonymous, and there is no higher praise. What a wonderful book' Ali Smith Here are all Grace Paley's classic stories in one volume. ...Show more
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin contemporary American fiction series
Whether writing about relationships, sexy little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, Grace Paley captures the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the human experience with matchless style in this book of short s ...Show more
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