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The Collected Stories

Grace Paley

Paperback | Pages: 386 pages

Rating: 4.18 | 2786 Users | 203 Reviews

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Title	:	The Collected Stories
Author	:	Grace Paley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 386 pages
Published	:	1995 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Literature. Classics

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At long last, here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume. From her first book, The Little Disturbances of Man, published in 1959, to Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) and Later the Same Day (1985), Grace Paley's quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language have won her readers' hearts and secured her place as one of America's most accomplished writers. Grace Paley's stories are united by her signature interweaving of personal and political truths, by her extraordinary capacity for empathy, and by her pointed, funny depiction a the small and large events that make up city life. As her work progresses, we encounter many of the same characters and revisit the same sites, bearing witness to a community as it develops and matures, becoming part ourselves of a dense and vital world that is singular yet achingly familiar.

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Original Title:	The Collected Stories
ISBN:	0374524319 (ISBN13: 9780374524319)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1995), Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (1995), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1994)

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Excellent, but not a thing to be consumed all at once. Since it's been months, I could probably dip into this again.

the stories are small in scale--domestic settings; blocks, neighborhood playgrounds--but she fills them with rich, aphoristic asides that are not only cosmically wise but really funny. it's interesting, for all the second-person, interiority-oriented writing, paley's stories are fundamentally social. you get to know the characters, sure, but you never really feel inside them, you only have the pleasure of sharing the room with them. the best part is that none of them are outrightly exceptional;

46. The Collected Stories by Grace Paleypublished: 1994format: 386 page paperbackacquired: 2006, from my neighborread: Oct 19 - Nov 7 (with something of a break from Oct 29 - Nov 3)rating: 5Selected stories from three collections: - The Little Disturbances of Man (1959) - Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) - Later the Same Day (1985)Its when trying to review a book like this, that I get a sense of how limited I am as a reviewer. There is a world of stuff to say about this book, a rich

Did I read every story in this book? No. You know why? Because I couldn't stomach the goodness any longer. Really. I, in all honesty, need to let what I did read soak in real good before I continue. If I may use the vernacular: Paley is messed up. These stories are messed the hell up in the most wonderful kinds of ways: characters, dialogue, ridiculous plots. I need to swallow down some other works before I can continue, but I'm excited to pick this book back up soon.

I've been trying to finish this book for over six months and I just couldn't do it. I had to give up even though I read more than 300 pages. The stories have fragmented plots and dialogues making them difficult to follow. I know Paley is supposed to be a revolutionary story writer in terms of her style and her ear for dialogue but I could not get into this. Not an enjoyable read.

This book contains three separate volumes of short stories, The Little Disturbances of Man from 1959, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute from 1974 and Later the Same Day from 1985. They were all grouped into one collection in 1994, and this edition was published in 2007, the year Grace Paley died at the age of eighty-five. The stories mostly concern a group of interconnected characters in the Bronx whose lives from early motherhood to late middle age are charted right through the collection,

Id recommend to pick only one of Paleys short story collections and focus on that; all these stories together in a 500-pages book felt too much for me, they mixed up in my mind after a while and felt repetitive. This is also because there is no particular evolution in the writing and themes of the stories, even if they are from three different collections that span through three decades, so after a while its like reading the same thing over and over again.This is a shame because Grace Paley is a