Summary
All of Grace Paley's 45 classic stories, written over a span of 25 years, collected in one volume.
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"[These stories] are everything the utopian schemes they touch on never were: funny, stylish, eccentric, and aware that cant and jargon take quotation marks." -- Walter Kirn
-- New York
"Humorous, sharp, and sly. 'The Collected Stories' is that rare thing, a great collection of American fiction." -- Charles Baxter
-- Washington Post Book World
"All over the world, in languages you never heard of, she is read as a master storyteller in the great tradition: People love life more because of her writing." -- Vivian Gornick
-- Women\'s Review of Books
"[Paley's] dsitinctive, sure-footed command of the short-story form brings to fictional material a quality that must be called poetry. By this I mean not mere verbal sauce ...but the ability of language to dance with playful, lordly authority about the contours of reality." -- Robert Pinsky
-- New York Times Book Review
"Paley plunders daily experience for stories crowded with the people, sounds and smells of the huge variety of cultures that make up her rich suburban stew....Paley relishes the possibilities that exist between beginnings and endings, birth and death. For her, life does not follow straight lines and nor should fiction."
-- Literary Review
"...Paley...is one of the enduring talents of her epoch." -- Joyce Carol Oates
-- London Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 1994
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.5 pounds
Publisher's Notes
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 have won her readers' hearts and secured her place as one of America's most accomplished writers. Grace Paley's stories are united by her signature interweaving of personal and political truths, by her extraordinary capacity for empathy, and by her pointed, funny depiction a the small and large events that make up city life. As her work progresses, we encounter many of the same characters and revisit the same sites, bearing witness to a community as it develops and matures, becoming part ourselves of a dense and vital world that is singular yet achingly familiar.
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