Books : The Collected Stories of Grace Paley (Virago modern classics)
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by: Grace Paley
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781860495212
ISBN: 1860495214
Label: Virago Press Ltd
Manufacturer: Virago Press Ltd
Number Of Pages: 413
Publication Date: August 05, 1999
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Sales Rank: 1412955
Studio: Virago Press Ltd
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Here are all Grace Paley's classic stories in one volume. From her first book THE LITTLE DISTURBANCES OF MAN (1959), to ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE (1974) and LATER THE SAME DAY (1985), Grace Paley's quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language have 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.
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The very things that have made Grace Paley a terrible poet unfortunately affect her bad fiction as well. She is preachy, pedantic, and damns any notion of advancing skill or craftsmanship over screeding and speechifying. And it's doubly a shame because her earliest stories showed some potential, however limited, but even more drive. In her The Collected Stories, the book is divided up into the three books of forty-four tales she's published in her 83 years of life: The Little Disturbances Of Man ... Read More
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