A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, And Poetry

One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017" A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of PaleyÆs writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and brilliant economy of words. "A writer like Paley," writes George Saunders, ôcomes along and brightens language up again, takes it aside and gives it a pep talk, sends it back renewed, so it can do its job, which is to wake us up.ö Best known for her inimitable short stories, Grace Paley was also an enormously talented essayist and poet, as well as a fierce activist. She was a tireless member of the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, the tenantsÆ rights movement, the anti-nuclear-power movement, and the WomenÆs Pentagon Action, among other causes, and proved herself to be a passionate citizen of each of her communitiesùNew York City and rural Vermont.

• | Author: Grace Paley
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
• | Publication Date: Apr 03, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Collections
• | ISBN-10: 0374537410
• | ISBN-13: 9780374537418