Grace Paley: 11 books

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...