The Collected Stories,9780374524319

The Collected Stories

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ISBN13: 9780374524319
ISBN10: 0374524319
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1995-04-30
Publisher(s): Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary

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 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.

Table of Contents

Two Ears, Three Lucks ix
THE LITTLE DISTURBANCES OF MAN
Goodbye and Good Luck
3(11)
A Woman, Young and Old
14(12)
The Pale Pink Roast
26(8)
The Loudest Voice
34(7)
The Contest
41(9)
An Interest in Life
50(16)
An Irrevocable Diameter
66(31)
Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life
The Used-Boy Raisers
81(7)
A Subject of Childhood
88(9)
In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All
97(18)
The Floating Truth
115(14)
ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE
Wants
129(3)
Debts
132(3)
Distance
135(11)
Faith in the Afternoon
146(15)
Gloomy Tune
161(4)
Living
165(3)
Come On, Ye Sons of Art
168(7)
Faith in a Tree
175(20)
Samuel
195(4)
The Burdened Man
199(5)
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
204(16)
Politics
220(3)
Northeast Playground
223(3)
The Little Girl
226(6)
A Conversation with My Father
232(6)
The Immigrant Story
238(4)
The Long-Distance Runner
242(19)
LATER THE SAME DAY
Love
261(4)
Dreamer in a Dead Language
265(19)
In the Garden
284(4)
Somewhere Else
288(10)
Lavinia: An Old Story
298(4)
Friends
302(14)
At That Time, or The History of a Joke
316(3)
Anxiety
319(4)
In This Country, But in Another Language, My Aunt Refuses to Marry the Men Everyone Wants Her To
323(2)
Mother
325(2)
Ruthy and Edie
327(8)
A Man Told Me the Story of His Life
335(2)
The Story Hearer
337(9)
This Is a Story about My Friend George, the Toy Inventor
346(2)
Zagrowsky Tells
348(17)
The Expensive Moment
365(13)
Listening
378

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