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The Collected Stories

by Grace Paley Grace Paley

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9781466884014

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 10/07/2014
Series: ICTS Teacher Certification Test Prep
Sold by: Macmillan
Format: eBook
Pages: 386
Sales rank: 221,353
File size: 2 MB

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.

	Two Ears, Three Lucks
	Goodbye and Good Luck	3
	A Woman, Young and Old	14
	The Pale Pink Roast	26
	The Loudest Voice	34
	The Contest	41
	An Interest in Life	50
	An Irrevocable Diameter	66
	Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life
1	The Used-Boy Raisers	81
2	A Subject of Childhood	88
	In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All	97
	The Floating Truth	115
	Wants	129
	Debts	132
	Distance	135
	Faith in the Afternoon	146
	Gloomy Tune	161
	Living	165
	Come On, Ye Sons of Art	168
	Faith in a Tree	175
	Samuel	195
	The Burdened Man	199
	Enormous Changes at the Last Minute	204
	Politics	220
	Northeast Playground	223
	The Little Girl	226
	A Conversation with My Father	232
	The Immigrant Story	238
	The Long-Distance Runner	242
	Love	261
	Dreamer in a Dead Language	265
	In the Garden	284
	Somewhere Else	288
	Lavinia: An Old Story	298
	Friends	302
	At That Time, or The History of a Joke	316
	Anxiety	319
	In This Country, But in Another Language, My Aunt Refuses to Marry the Men Everyone Wants Her To	323
	Mother	325
	Ruthy and Edie	327
	A Man Told Me the Story of His Life	335
	The Story Hearer	337
	This Is a Story about My Friend George, the Toy Inventor	346
	Zagrowsky Tells	348
	The Expensive Moment	365
	Listening	378

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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.

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Library Journal

This collection brings together Paley's three previous volumes of stories: The Little Disturbances of Man (1959; Penguin, 1985. reprint), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (Farrar, 1974), and Later the Same Day ( LJ 1/86). Paley's inventive style and her funny, feisty, irreverent characters create vivid slices of life. Her stories often concern women coping with children alone, as in ``An Interest in Life,'' where a woman has an affair after her husband deserts her. A continuing character, Faith, is a divorced woman with children who gets her emotional support from her women friends. In ``Faith in a Tree,'' Faith's interests expand to include politics after she witnesses an antiwar demonstration in the park. In ``A Conversation with My Father,'' a writer explains that even a story's terrible ending is not final--the characters could still change. This possibility of hope permeates all Paley's stories, creating a rich treasury of unexpected pleasures and revealing truths. Essential.-- Patricia Ross, Westerville P.L., Ohio

Donna Seaman

Paley is a member of that select breed of writers who become masters of the short story and resist the pressure to produce a novel. This volume gathers together more than 30 years' worth of stellar stories from Paley's best-known collections, "The Little Disturbances of Man" (1959), "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute" (1974), and "Later the Same Day" (1985). This rich compilation presents us with the full spectrum of Paley's voices as well as her observations and interpretations of urban family life and a society that thrives on oppression. An outspoken pacifist, feminist, and self-described "cooperative anarchist," Paley can no more keep her political beliefs out of her fiction than a plant can keep from releasing oxygen into the atmosphere, but the story always comes first. Her cast of stubborn, opinionated, earthy, smart, sassy, and robust characters demand it. Paley writes just as effectively from a man's point of view as a woman's, discerning the ironies of everyone's predicaments, but she writes most poignantly about the frustrations of women stuck in the rigidity of gender roles. Paley's people either have moxie, or tremendous endurance. They're frank about lust, angry about money, and always ready for a good argument. These staccato tales of the city capture of the essence of the changes each decade has brought, while also dramatizing the continuity of human emotions. And Paley can just knock us flat with the force of her spirited language.

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