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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories

by Grace Paley

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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).

About the Author

Grace Paley remains one of America's most revered short story writers. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1922, Paley established a reputation as a bard of Jewish New York with highly acclaimed collections like "The Little Disturbances of Man" (1959), "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute" (1974), and "Later the Same Day" (1985). Her most recent work, "The Collected Stories," was published in 1994 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Table of Contents

Wants

Debts

Distance

Faith in the Afternoon

Gloomy Tune

Living

Come On, Ye Sons of Art

Faith in a Tree

Samuel

The Burdened Man

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Politics

Northeast Playground

The Little Girl

A Conversation with My Father

The Immigrant Story

The Long-Distance Runner


Product Details

ISBN:
9780374515249
Subtitle:
Stories
Author:
Paley, Grace
Author:
Paley, George
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
United States Social life and customs.
Copyright:
Series Volume:
L13 [i.e. 613]
Publication Date:
September 1985
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
200
Dimensions:
7.65x5.48x.56 in. .42 lbs.

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