Grace Paley: 11 books

Book cover of A Grace Paley Reader

A Grace Paley Reader

Stories, Essays, and Poetry

by Grace Paley
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017" A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley’s writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and brilliant economy of words. "A writer like Paley," writes George...
Book cover of Just As I Thought
by Grace Paley
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

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...
Book cover of Later the Same Day
by Grace Paley
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

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...
Book cover of Fidelity

Fidelity

Poems

by Grace Paley
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this 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...
Book cover of Tutti i racconti
by Grace Paley
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 22, 2018

I quarantacinque racconti che compongono questa raccolta rappresentano l’intera opera narrativa di Grace Paley: un corpus a prima vista esiguo ma di enorme rilevanza, che la consegna alla storia della letteratura come una maestra della short story americana del Novecento, ammirata da intere generazioni...
Book cover of Die kleinen Widrigkeiten des Lebens
by Grace Paley, Christian Brandl
Language: German
Release Date: February 3, 2015

Wer DIE KLEINEN WIDRIGKEITEN DES LEBENS, den ersten Erzählungsband von Grace Paley, gelesen hat, kann sich darauf freuen, einigen ihrer temperamentvollen Figuren in UNGEHEURE VERÄNDERUNGEN IN LETZTER MINUTE wiederzubegegnen. Allen voran Faith, dem Alter Ego der Autorin, ihren Exmännern und Liebhabern,...
Book cover of Ungeheure Veränderungen in letzter Minute
by Grace Paley, Christian Brandl
Language: German
Release Date: February 3, 2015

Wer "Die kleinen Widrigkeiten des Lebens", den ersten Erzählungsband von Grace Paley, gelesen hat, wird sich freuen, hier einigen ihrer temperamentvollen Figuren wiederzubegegnen. Allen voran Faith, dem Alter Ego der Autorin, ihren Exmännern und Liebhabern, ihren wilden Söhnen Tonto und...
Book cover of The Collected Stories
by Grace Paley
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

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...
Book cover of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
by Grace Paley
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

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...
Book cover of Begin Again

Begin Again

Collected Poems

by Grace Paley
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

The collected poems--some never previously published--of one of our best-loved, most respected authors. Combining Grace Paley's four previous collections and new unpublished work, Begin Again traces the career of this direct, attentive, never predictable poet. Whether she describes the vicissitudes...
Book cover of Am selben Tag, später
by Grace Paley, Christian Brandl
Language: German
Release Date: February 3, 2015

Im Mittelpunkt von Grace Paleys Storys steht die Stadt New York mit ihren Vororten. Ihr Figurenensemble aus Freundinnen, Liebhabern und Exmännern macht Schulpolitik und geht gegen Krieg, Rassismus und Umweltzerstörung auf die Straße. Männer und Frauen sind älter geworden, treiben neuerdings Yoga,...
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