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After Sorrow: An American Among the VietnameseISBN 0670843326 (0-670-84332-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Author's Dimension: Selected Essaysby Christa Wolf, Alexander Stephan, Grace Paley , Jan Van HeurckISBN 0226904946 (0-226-90494-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Begin Again: Collected Poemsby Grace PaleyISBN 0374527245 (0-374-52724-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Begin Again: Collected Poems'Book summary:For someone who describes herself as a "combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist," Grace Paley writes poetry like a rebel angel. Combining selections from her two previous volumes as well as new and unpublished poems, Begin Again is the work of a seasoned literary veteran but also that of a lifelong bur under the establishment's saddle. A teacher, activist, and National Book Award-winning master of the short story form, Paley fashions poems as terse as haiku but as direct and earthy as a note to a friend--which, in fact, several of these seem to be. Here are poems about milkweed pods, Saint John's wort, bees, and ants, as well as poems about El Salvador, Vietnam, and AIDS. Verses about the five-day week ("like a long bath in the / first bathtub of God") rub shoulders with those about responsibility:
It is the responsibility of the male poet to be a woman
Who else could pen these lines and not perish under their weight? To say that Paley is a political writer is like saying that the hero of the Old Testament is an omnipotent God; without either half of the equation, there isn't much point. War, capitalism, sanitary napkins, old age and old dogs: no detail in the lives of men and women is too large or too small to warrant her compassionate eye. These are poems deeply invested in life and the world, rendered in a voice so immediate you feel you've called Grace up for a chat. --Chloe Byrne [via]
It is the responsibility of the female poet to be a woman
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The Collected Storiesby Grace PaleyISBN 0374530289 (0-374-53028-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories'Book summary:Grace Paleys classic collectiona finalist for the National Book Awarddemonstrates 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 conflict) between parents and children or between husband and wife, or about the struggles of aging single mothers or disheartened political organizers to make sense of the world, she brings the same unerring ear for the rhythm of life as it is actually lived.[via]The Collected Stories is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.More editions of The Collected Stories:
- The Collected Stories: ISBN 0374126364 (0-374-12636-4)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - The Collected Stories: ISBN 0374524319 (0-374-52431-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Collected Stories: ISBN 0374126380 (0-374-12638-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Collected Stories: ISBN 0374530289 (0-374-53028-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
- The Collected Stories: ISBN 0374126364 (0-374-12636-4)
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minuteby Grace PaleyISBN 0374515247 (0-374-51524-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enormous Changes at the Last Minute'Book summary:In this collection of short stories, 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).[via]More editions of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute:
- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories: ISBN 023396617X (0-233-96617-X)
Hardcover, Andre Deutsch - Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: ISBN 0374148511 (0-374-14851-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux - Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: ISBN 0374515247 (0-374-51524-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories: ISBN 023396617X (0-233-96617-X)
Fidelityby Grace PaleyISBN 0374299064 (0-374-29906-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Just As I Thoughtby Grace PaleyISBN 0374525854 (0-374-52585-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just As I Thought'Book summary:With their loopy sense of humor, pervasive sorrow, and Lower East Side vernacular, Grace Paley's stories have earned her a permanent place in American literature. Now her publisher has collected almost three decades of essays, reviews, and lectures, which amount to cumulative, if oblique, self-portrait. "This is not an autobiographical collection," she writes in her introduction, "but it is about my life." Since Paley's life has encompassed not only literature but a long involvement in politics, there are pungent takes on the women's movement, anti-nuke protests, and Vietnam. Yet she's too hard-headed to write even a single sentence of polemical drivel; her political prose is always personal. Here, for example, she attends a Quaker sit-in at the Seabrook nuclear site: "I'm not very good at Friends meetings. My mind refuses to prevent my eyes from looking at the folks around me, and I'm often annoyed because I can't get the drift of the murmur of private witness. I did hear one young man near me say, 'May your intercession here today be the fruit of our action.' I think this means 'God helps those that help themselves,' a proverb that sounds meaner than it really is." And when it comes to literature and writing, Paley is tremendous. Her short essays on Isaac Babel and Donald Barthelme are themselves worth the price ofpurchase. In Just As I Thought, the author accomplishes exactly what she ascribes to Babel, producing "clarity, presentness, tension, and a model of how always, though with great difficulty, to proceed." [via]
Later the Same Dayby Grace PaleyISBN 0140087621 (0-14-008762-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Later the Same Day'Book summary:Fiction, Contemporary American Fiction [via]
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The Little Disturbances of Manby Grace PaleyISBN 0140075577 (0-14-007557-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Disturbances of Man'Book summary:This collection includes stories about men and women in the thick of life and the tumultuous relationships they share. Anything can, and does, happen to the loving couples, bickering couples, deserted wives and discarded husbands. [via]
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Nice Jewish Girls : Growing up in Americaby Marlene A. Marks, Dinah Berland, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Persis Knobbe, Grace PaleyISBN 0452273978 (0-452-27397-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nice Jewish Girls : Growing up in America'Book summary:Forty female writers discuss, in poem, story, and memory, the trials and tribulations of growing and maturing as a Jewish-American female in a unique anthology. [via]
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Pictures of Peaceby Grace Paley , Roland Algrant, Ariel Dorfman, Kim Zorn CaputoISBN 067940595X (0-679-40595-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Soulstormby Grace Paley , Roland Algrant, Ariel Dorfman, Kim Zorn CaputoISBN 081121091X (0-8112-1091-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soulstorm'Book summary:The twenty-none stories in Soulstorm were originally published in two separate volumes in 1974A Via Crucis do Corpo (The Stations of the Body) and Onde Estivestes de Noite (Where You Were at Night)and are now combined and sensitively translated into English by Alexis Levitan.
The realm of Lispector's fiction is the inner life; self-knowledge is her main concern. Like James Joyce's Dubliners, her protagonists live small, stifled lives, often unaware of their own suffering, but her lucid and richly textured narratives allow us, the readers, the epiphanies that they themselves are denied. [via] 
What We Know So Far: Wisdom Among Womenby Grace Paley , Matilda Cuomo, Billie Jean King, Beth BenatovichISBN 0312136188 (0-312-13618-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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