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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Stories

by Grace Paley
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Stories

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ISBN13: 9780374515249
ISBN10: 0374515247
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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).

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"Grace Paley makes me weep and laugh-and admire. She is that rare kind of writer, a natural, with a voice like no one else's: funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute."—Susan Sontag

"Grace Paley is a wonderful writer and troublemaker. We are fortunate to have her in our country."—Donald Barthelme

"I can't think of another writer who captures the itch of the city, love between parents and children, or the cutting edge of combat, as well."—Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review

"Technically, Grace Paley's work makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant. Each one of her stories has more abundant inner life than most other people's novels . . . Her prose presents a series of miracles of poetic compression."—Angela Carter, London Review of Books

"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


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ISBN:
9780374515249
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/01/1985
Publisher:
FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX
Pages:
208
Height:
.70IN
Width:
5.40IN
Thickness:
.50
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1994
Series Volume:
L13 [i.e. 613]
Author:
Grace
Author:
George Paley
Author:
Grace Paley
Author:
Paley
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
United states
Subject:
United States Social life and customs.

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