Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

by Grace Paley

Overview

In this collection of short stories, 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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374515249
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	09/01/1985
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.95(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Grace Paley, born in the Bronx in 1922, 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

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

Editorial Reviews

Grace Paley makes me weep and laugh-and admire. She is that rare kind of writer, a natural, with a voice like no one else's: funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute.” —Susan Sontag

“Grace Paley is a wonderful writer and troublemaker. We are fortunate to have her in our country.” —Donald Barthelme

“I can't think of another writer who captures the itch of the city, love between parents and children, or the cutting edge of combat, as well.” —Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review

“Technically, Grace Paley's work makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant. Each one of her stories has more abundant inner life than most other people's novels . . . Her prose presents a series of miracles of poetic compression.” —Angela Carter, London Review of Books

“A solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life.” —Walter Clemons, Newsweek

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