Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #268046 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 413 pages

Review
'Paley is as clever a mimic as Philip Roth, as cheerfully zany and aleatory in her vision of New York as Christina Stead, as serendipitous as Donald Bartheleme, but her unladylike gutsiness and friendliness are nonpareil' EDMUND WHITE, OBSERVER 'This is a collection full of energy and stunning, quiet innovation ... it spills over with contempt, raucous humour, sadness and generosity. In it, life and language are synonymous, and there is no higher praise. What a wonderful book' ALI SMITH, SCOTSMAN 'An understanding of loneliness, lust, selfishness and fatigue that is splendidly comic and unladylike' PHILIP ROTH 'Largely set within the same small close-knit community in New York's Lower East Side ... ultimately what's at stake for Paley is whether to believe in the comic possibility of continuance or the tragic inevitablity of ending. Grace Paley's is an exceptional voice in contemporary American literature' KASIA BODDY, GUARDIAN 'A voice like no one else's: funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute' SUSAN SONTAG 'Some of the most important and lasting stories of the second half of the century' TLS 'Paley relishes the possibilities that exist between beginnings and endings, birth and death' LITERARY REVIEW

THE TIMES
'Entirely distinctive, disconcertingly honest, unladylike, moving and highly comic'

Philip Roth
'An understanding of loneliness, lust, selfishness and fatigue that is splendidly comic and unladylike'