Summary
"An essential book for all Grace Paley fans. Grace Paley is best known for her inimitable short stories, but she was also an enormously talented essayist and poet. A Grace Paley Reader collects the best of Paley's writing, showcasing her breadth of work and her extraordinary insight and empathy. Wit... Full description
- I.
- Stories.
- From The little disturbances of man.
- Goodbye and good luck ;
- A woman, young and old ;
- The loudest voice ;
- An interest in life ;
- Two short sad stories from a long and happy life ;
- The used-boy raisers ;
- A subject of childhood
- From Enormous changes at the last minute.
- Living ;
- Come on, ye sons of art ;
- Faith in a tree ;
- Enormous changes at the last minute ;
- A conversation with my father ;
- The long-distance runner
- From Later the same day.
- Friends ;
- Mother ;
- Ruthy and Edie ;
- Zagrowsky tells
- II.
- Essays.
- From Just as I thought.
- Injustice ;
- The illegal days ;
- Jobs ;
- Six days : some rememberings ;
- Cop tales ;
- The seneca stories : tales from the women's peace encampment ;
- Women's pentagon action unity statement ;
- Of poetry and women and the world ;
- Thinking about Barbary Deming ;
- The Gulf War ;
- Report from North Vietnam ;
- El Salvador ;
- Other people's children ;
- Some notes on teaching : probably spoken ;
- Imagining the present ;
- The value of not understanding everything ;
- Feelings in the presence of the sight and sound of the bread and puppet theater ;
- Traveling
- From Long walks and intimate talks.
- Midrash on happiness
- III.
- Poems.
- Fidelity ;
- For Danny ;
- My mother : 33 years later ;
- Suddenly there's Poughkeepsie ;
- In the bus ;
- A poem about storytelling ;
- News ;
- Connections : Vermont
- Vietnam (I) ;
- Connections : Vermont
- Vietnam (II) ;
- In San Salvador (I) ;
- That country ;
- On the ramblas
- a tree
- a girl ;
- People in my family ;
- My father at 85 ;
- Sisters ;
- On occasion ;
- Anti-love poem ;
- My sister and my grandson ;
- Fathers ;
- Luck ;
- The hard-hearted rich ;
- Responsibility ;
- For my daughter ;
- Letter ;
- Fear ;
- Families ;
- Saint-John's-wort! ;
- Goldenrod ;
- Then ;
- Is there a difference between men and women ;
- Definition ;
- Education ;
- One day ;
- This hill.