The Collected Stories

The Collected Stories

by Grace Paley
The Collected Stories

The Collected Stories

by Grace Paley

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374530280
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 04/03/2007
Series: FSG Classics
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 373,208
Product dimensions: 5.55(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Born in the Bronx in 1922, Grace Paley was a renowned writer and activist. Her Collected Stories was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her other collections include Enormous Changes at the Last Minute and Just As I Thought. She died in Vermont on August 22, 2007.

Table of Contents

Two Ears, Three Lucks Goodbye and Good Luck A Woman, Young and Old The Pale Pink Roast The Loudest Voice The Contest An Interest in Life An Irrevocable Diameter Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life The Used-Boy Raisers A Subject of Childhood In Time, Which Made a Monkey of Us All The Floating Truth Wants Debts Distance Faith in the Afternoon Gloomy Tune Living Come On, Ye Sons of Art Faith in a Tree Samuel The Burdened Man Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Politics Northeast Playground The Little Girl A Conversation with My Father The Immigrant Story The Long-Distance Runner Love Dreamer in a Dead Language In the Garden Somewhere Else Lavinia: An Old Story Friends At That Time, or The History of a Joke Anxiety In This Country, but in Another Language, My Aunt Refuses to Marry the Men Everyone Wants Her To Mother Ruthy and Edie A Man Told Me the Story of His Life The Story Hearer This Is a Story about My Friend George, the Toy Inventor Zagrowsky Tells The Expensive Moment Listening

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