Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry

Title: Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry
Author: Grace Paley
ISBN: 9780374165826
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2017
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
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One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017"

A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley's 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, "comes 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." 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 tenants' rights movement, the anti-nuclear-power movement, and the Women's Pentagon Action, among other causes, and proved herself to be a passionate citizen of each of her communities--New York City and rural Vermont.