A Grace Paley Reader

A Grace Paley Reader
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Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9780374165826
ISBN-13 : 0374165823
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis A Grace Paley Reader by : Grace Paley

"An essential book for all Grace Paley fans Grace Paley is best known for her inimitable short stories, but she was also an enormously talented essayist and poet. A Grace Paley Reader collects the best of Paley's writing, showcasing her breadth of work and her extraordinary insight and empathy. With an introduction by George Saunders and an afterword by the writer's daughter, Nora Paley, A Grace Paley Reader is sure to become an instant classic."--

Just As I Thought

Just As I Thought
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9781466883970
ISBN-13 : 1466883979
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Just As I Thought by : Grace Paley

This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have from this quintessentially American writer, Just As I Thought gives us a chance to see Paley not only as a writer and "troublemaker" but also as a daughter, sister, mother, and grandmother. Through her descriptions of her childhood in the Bronx and her experiences as an antiwar activist to her lectures on writing and her recollections of other writers, these pieces are always alive with Paley's inimitable voice, humor, and wisdom.

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 166
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ISBN-10 : 9781466883987
ISBN-13 : 1466883987
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by : Grace Paley

In Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, 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, The New York Times Book Review). In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a "solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life" (Walter Clemons, Newsweek).

Grace Paley's Life Stories

Grace Paley's Life Stories
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Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015029285130
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Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Grace Paley's Life Stories by : Judith Arcana

Is at the core of Judith Arcana's biographical reading of this strongly autobiographical writer. Grace Paley's Life Stories interweaves details about Paley with critical discussions of her works, examining her as a woman, mother, activist, and Jew. Arcana visited and interviewed Paley at her homes in Vermont and New York over a period of several years. She also interviewed Paley's family, friends, and colleagues. Such extensive research is unmatched in Paley scholarship.

Later the Same Day

Later the Same Day
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9781466884090
ISBN-13 : 1466884096
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Later the Same Day by : Grace Paley

Grace Paley's stature among writers of short fiction was established by her first collection, The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), and reconfirmed with the publication of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute in 1974. This new book, a selection from her work over the past ten years, is appropriately titled Later the Same Day: Paley's concerns, or themes, have changed only as much as life's constants change with the passage of time. Those characters familiar to readers of her previous volumes have grown older but are still deeply involved with their parents, their lovers and friends, and their children--the past, present, and future--and the welfare of the wider community. We meet the neighborhood druggist with his tale of familiar heartbreak and small-time bigotry ("Zagrowsky Tells"); a willful father in Puerto Rico who cannot accept the obvious loss of his child by kidnapping ("In the Garden"); a black woman who mourns the fact that her daughter, "born in good cheer," has become only "busy and broad" ("Lavinia: An Old Story")' a visitor from China whose concern is about the children, how to raise them" (The Expensive Moment:); a craftsman whose beautiful creation is stillborn ("This is a Story about My Friend George, the Toy Inventor"). The seenteen stories in Later the Same Day are marked by Paley's low-keyed humor, her rich but economical use of language, and her seemingly endless capacity for empathy. Their substance--the persistence of human and political concerns, despite practical pressures--subtly overwhelms less important matters.

The Little Disturbances of Man

The Little Disturbances of Man
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Publisher : Viking Adult
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015000523368
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Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The Little Disturbances of Man by : Grace Paley

With a sure and humorous touch, Grace Paley explores the "little disturbances" that lie behind our everyday lives. Whether writing about sexy little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, she captures the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of human experience with matchless style. Book jacket.

Fidelity

Fidelity
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 97
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ISBN-10 : 9781466875814
ISBN-13 : 146687581X
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Fidelity by : Grace Paley

Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed Fidelity, a wise and poignant book of poems. Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont, the poems are sober and playful, experimenting with form while remaining eminently readable. They explore the beginnings and ends of relationships, the ties that bind siblings, the workings of dreams, the surreal strangeness of the aging body—all imbued with her unique perspective and voice. Mournful and nostalgic, but also ruefully funny and full of love, Fidelity is Grace Paley's passionate and haunting elegy for the life she was leaving behind.

Here and Somewhere Else

Here and Somewhere Else
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Publisher : Feminist Press
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015066843239
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Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Here and Somewhere Else by : Grace Paley

Two married writers express their shared activism in a surprising range of styles and voices.

Long Walks and Intimate Talks

Long Walks and Intimate Talks
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Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages : 84
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ISBN-10 : 1558610448
ISBN-13 : 9781558610446
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Long Walks and Intimate Talks by : Grace Paley

    This first collaboration of two long-time feminist and antiwar activists is a wonderful melding of word and image that creates a powerful call for world peace. Paley's poems and short fiction and William's vivid watercolors depict the beauty and dignity of "ordinary" lives from El Salvador to the Bronx, from New Hampshire to Vietnam. Scenes and stories of domestic life, solitude, and nature are interspersed with heart-wrenching images of women widowed and children crippled by war and incarcerated by urban poverty, Here, too, are stories and paintings of protest, joyous and defiant.

The Anthologist

The Anthologist
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781416583974
ISBN-13 : 1416583971
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Anthologist by : Nicholson Baker

Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he’s having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker’s brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry. * * * A New York Times Notable Book, 2009 Favorite Fiction of 2009–Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2009–The Christian Science Monitor Best of 2009–Slate.com "A Year’s Reading" Favorites, 2009–The New Yorker Best Books of 2009–Seattle Times