This collection includes stories about men and women in the thick of life and the tumultuous relationships they share. Anything can, and does, happen to the loving couples, bickering couples, deserted wives and discarded husbands.
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Grace Paley was a short story writer, poet, pacifist, political activist, and professor. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction, the Edith Wharton Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award for Literary Arts. She died in 2007.
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Seller: Bill & Ben Books, Faringdon, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Good. Paley's quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language won her readers' hearts and secured her place as one of America's most accomplished short-story writers. Her stories are united by her signature interweaving of personal and political truths, her extraordinary capacity for empathy and her pointed depiction of the small and large events that make up daily life. This is a rare copy of Grace Paley's debut collection of stories. First published in 1959 and reissued by Andre Deutsch in 1969. Seller Inventory # 0099102
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Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 189. Black and white printed photo d/w. Short stories.Original publisher's red cloth boards with gilt lettering at spine. ISBN: 0233961321 Very good very good, slightly used dust jacket with slight edgewear at top rear. Decent copy. Seller Inventory # C94207
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