Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
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"
Table of Contents
Goodbye and good luck -- A woman, young and old -- The pale pink roast -- The loudest voice -- The contest -- An interest in life -- An irrevocable diameter -- Two short sad stories from a long and happy life: The used-boy raisers. A subject of childhood -- In time which made a monkey of us all -- The floating truth.