The Collected Stories Of Grace Paley

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349009124

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The Collected Stories of Grace Paley by Grace Paley Pdf

'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. Paley's quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language won her readers' hearts and secured her place as one of America's most accomplished short-story writers. Her stories are united by her signature interweaving of personal and political truths, her extraordinary capacity for empathy and her pointed depiction of the small and large events that make up daily life. Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466883987

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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley Pdf

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).

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374715106

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A Grace Paley Reader by Grace Paley Pdf

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.

Author : Jami Attenberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063039810

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I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg Pdf

A Most Anticipated Title from: USA Today * The Guardian * Alma * Fodor’s * AV Club * Vogue * KatieCouric.com * BookRiot * Lithub * BuzzFeed From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity—and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg—described as a “master of modern fiction” (Entertainment Weekly) and the “poet laureate of difficult families” (Kirkus Reviews)—reveals the defining moments that pushed her to create a life, and voice, she could claim for herself. What does it take to devote oneself to art? What does it mean to own one’s ideas? What does the world look like for a woman moving solo through it? As the daughter of a traveling salesman in the Midwest, Attenberg was drawn to a life on the road. Frustrated by quotidian jobs and hungry for inspiration and fresh experiences, her wanderlust led her across the country and eventually on travels around the globe. Through it all she grapples with questions of mortality, otherworldliness, and what we leave behind. It is during these adventures that she begins to reflect on the experiences of her youth—the trauma, the challenges, the risks she has taken. Driving across America on self-funded book tours, sometimes crashing on couches when she was broke, she keeps writing: in researching articles for magazines, jotting down ideas for novels, and refining her craft, she grows as an artist and increasingly learns to trust her gut and, ultimately, herself. Exploring themes of friendship, independence, class, and drive, I Came All This Way to Meet You is an inspiring story of finding one’s way home—emotionally, artistically, and physically—and an examination of art and individuality that will resonate with anyone determined to listen to their own creative calling.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466884090

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Later the Same Day by Grace Paley Pdf

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.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466884014

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The Collected Stories by Grace Paley Pdf

This reissue of 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.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015000523368

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The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley Pdf

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.

Author : K. A. Applegate
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590877372

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Begin Again by K. A. Applegate Pdf

Despite the odds stacked up against them, the Remnants seem to be surviving in the Rock's harsh environment while living peacefully with the inhabitants, but this new world still has its set of problems that Billy cannot handle.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 1860496962

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Just as I Thought by Grace Paley Pdf

Grace Paley gives a vivid account of her family, community and political life, making this multi-faceted self-portrait as close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to receive. Here are essays on war, racism and feminism, on being arrested, as well as reflections on family and childhood, on teaching and writing, and on being Jewish. This collection of articles, reports and talks represents thirty years of political and literary activity.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466875807

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Begin Again by Grace Paley Pdf

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.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416572442

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The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Pdf

"The Anthologist" captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose stylethat have made Baker--a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author--anAmerican master.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466875814

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Fidelity by Grace Paley Pdf

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.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1558610448

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Long Walks and Intimate Talks by Grace Paley Pdf

    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.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1860495214

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The Collected Stories by Grace Paley Pdf

Author : Grace Paley,Robert Nichols
Publisher : Feminist Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015066843239

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Here and Somewhere Else by Grace Paley,Robert Nichols Pdf

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