The Little Disturbances Of Man

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Disturbances of Man written by Grace Paley and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1968 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466883987
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enormous Changes at the Last Minute written by Grace Paley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140075577
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Disturbances of Man written by Grace Paley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1985-01-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether writing about relationships, sexy little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, Grace Paley captures the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the human experience with matchless style in this book of short stories. "Fresh and vigorous...Mrs. Paley’s view of life is her own."--The New Yorker "The glad tidings from this reviewer’s corner are of the appearance of a [writer] possessed of an all-too-infrequent literary virtue--the comic vision."--The New York Times

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466884096
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Later the Same Day written by Grace Paley and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466883979
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just As I Thought written by Grace Paley and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0374165823
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grace Paley Reader written by Grace Paley and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An essential book for all Grace Paley fans Grace Paley is best known for her inimitable short stories, but she was also an enormously talented essayist and poet. A Grace Paley Reader collects the best of Paley's writing, showcasing her breadth of work and her extraordinary insight and empathy. With an introduction by George Saunders and an afterword by the writer's daughter, Nora Paley, A Grace Paley Reader is sure to become an instant classic."--

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878059621
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Grace Paley written by Grace Paley and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With firm authority Paley discusses topics of wide range, many of which she describes as personal discoveries. She includes politics and environmentalism, the family and human relationships, the impact of background and education, the moral importance of community, feminism and women's liberation, the sexual self and role enforcement, America's need for communality and women's creative response to it, the art of teaching, and the importance of friendship.

Author : K. A. Applegate
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780590877374
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Begin Again written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the odds stacked up against them, the Remnants seem to be surviving in the Rock's harsh environment while living peacefully with the inhabitants, but this new world still has its set of problems that Billy cannot handle.

Author : Lydia Davis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374281734
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Disturbance written by Lydia Davis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558610446
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Walks and Intimate Talks written by Grace Paley and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1991 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Â Â Â Â 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.