Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Title Enormous Changes at the Last Minute PDF eBook
Author Grace Paley
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 166
Release 2014-10-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1466883987

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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).

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Title Enormous Changes at the Last Minute PDF eBook
Author Grace Paley
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 221
Release 1974
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0374515247

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A collection of short stories, originally published in 1974.

Later the Same Day

Later the Same Day
Title Later the Same Day PDF eBook
Author Grace Paley
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 221
Release 2014-10-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1466884096

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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.

Long Walks and Intimate Talks

Long Walks and Intimate Talks
Title Long Walks and Intimate Talks PDF eBook
Author Grace Paley
Publisher Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages 84
Release 1991
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781558610446

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    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.

The Little Disturbances of Man

The Little Disturbances of Man
Title The Little Disturbances of Man PDF eBook
Author Grace Paley
Publisher Viking Adult
Pages 200
Release 1968
Genre Fiction
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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.

Just As I Thought

Just As I Thought
Title Just As I Thought PDF eBook
Author Grace Paley
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 350
Release 2014-10-14
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1466883979

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This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have from this quintessentially American writer, Just As I Thought gives us a chance to see Paley not only as a writer and "troublemaker" but also as a daughter, sister, mother, and grandmother. Through her descriptions of her childhood in the Bronx and her experiences as an antiwar activist to her lectures on writing and her recollections of other writers, these pieces are always alive with Paley's inimitable voice, humor, and wisdom.

Fidelity

Fidelity
Title Fidelity PDF eBook
Author Grace Paley
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 97
Release 2014-07-15
Genre Poetry
ISBN 146687581X

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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.