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 stories. "Fresh and vigorous...Mrs. Paley’s view of life is her own."--The New Yorker "The glad tidings from this reviewer’s corner are of the appearance of a [writer] possessed of an all-too-infrequent literary virtue--the comic vision."--The New York Times

The Little Disturbances of Man (Contemporary American Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

PALEY, Grace

Humor & Satire

Penguin??Books

This collection of seventeen short stories deals with characters who are deeply involved with their parents, lovers, children, past, present, future, and the welfare of the community

Later the Same Day (Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Literary

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Short Stories & Anthologies

Andre Deutsch

One of the most moving and inspirational collections to be gathered in recent times, these interviews, in narrative form, detail the spiritual journeys of twenty-five women of wisdom, all over the age of fifty. With astonishing courage and candor, this diverse, celebrated group of women addresses such subjects as childhood, motherhood, sex, lovers, marriage, divorce, and menopause, and reveals pivotal moments of their lives, choices, losses, gains, and regrets. In their own words, they tell us what it means to be a woman and a human being in twentieth-century America, to be wise with the wisdom of experience, not youth. This is a book about transformation and affirmation, about people who have struggled and triumphed, who have changed in some deep and remarkable way, women whose voices will help other women to locate the source of their own grace and power. As Janine Vega says, "An older woman who has gone through love, childbearing, loss of love, divorce, widowhood, loss of the mothering function - this woman has an incredible power. We all have it, we were born with it, and now it's time to reclaim it. We have to reestablish our connection to the old ways. We have to look in the right place. We can either choose sadness, constriction, despair, or we can choose joy. Let us choose joy."

What We Know So Far: Wisdom Among Women

Politics & Social Sciences

King, Billie Jean

Cuomo, Matilda

Social Sciences

St Martins Pr

The Collected Stories

Grace Paley’s classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again. Whether writing about the love (and conflict) between parents and children or between husband and wife, or about the struggles of aging single mothers or disheartened political organizers to make sense of the world, she brings the same unerring ear for the rhythm of life as it is actually lived. The Collected Stories is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

United States

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Begin Again: Collected Poems

The collected poems-some never previously published-of one of our best-loved, most respected authors. Combining Grace Paley's four previous collections and new unpublished work, Begin Again traces the career of this direct, attentive, never predictable poet. Whether she describes the vicissitudes and pleasures of life in New York City or the hard beauty of her adoptive rural Vermont, whether she celebrates the blessings of friendship or protests against social injustice, her poems brim with the compassion and tough good humor that have made her stories and essays famous.

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Paley, Grace

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

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 language up again, takes it aside and gives it a pep talk, sends it back renewed, so it can do its job, which is to wake us up.” Best known for her inimitable short stories, Grace Paley was also an enormously talented essayist and poet, as well as a fierce activist. She was a tireless member of the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, the tenants’ rights movement, the anti-nuclear-power movement, and the Women’s Pentagon Action, among other causes, and proved herself to be a passionate citizen of each of her communities―New York City and rural Vermont.

A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry

The author presents a collection of articles, reports, and speeches recounting her family, community, and political life over the past thrity years

Just As I Thought

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

In this collection of seventeen stories, the author of "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute" reintroduces familiar characters whose perspectives have matured, but whose activities still center on family pursuits, community welfare, and future plans

Later the Same Day

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