Description
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: Penguin Books
Published: 01/08/1985
Pages: 189
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.05w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780140075571
ISBN10: 0140075577
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
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: Penguin Books
Published: 01/08/1985
Pages: 189
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.05w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780140075571
ISBN10: 0140075577
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
About the Author
Grace Paley was a short story writer, poet, pacifist, political activist, and professor. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction, the Edith Wharton Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award for Literary Arts. She died in 2007.