Selected Stories of Grace Paley, Grace Paley
Selected Stories of Grace Paley, Grace Paley
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Selected Stories of Grace Paley
A Selection

Author: Grace Paley

Narrator: Grace Paley

Abridged: 5 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/15/2018


Synopsis

Now available for the first time in audio as a digital download, a selection of stories from Grace Paley.

Whether writing about relationships, little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, GRACE PALEY captured the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the human experience with matchless style. This volume collects a selection of her stories, including:

-From The Little Disturbances of Man
-The Pale Pink Roast
-An Interest in Life
Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life
-A Subject of Childhood
-Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
-Debts
-Living
-A Conversation with My Father
-The Immigrant Story
-The Long Distance Runner
-From Later the Same Day
-Dreamer in a Dead Language
-Friends
-In This Country, but in Another Language
-My Aunt Refuses to Marry the Men Everyone Wants Her To
-Mother
-A Man Told Me the Story of His Life
-The Story Hearer
-This Is a Story About My Friend George the Toy Inventor
-Zagrowsky Tells

This audio collection is an abridgement of the full volume of Grace Paley's short story work.

About The Author

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sari Lynn on August 01, 2010

There's something magical about hearing these stories, which I originally read more than a decade ago, read in the author's voice. The late Grace Paley captures a time and place - New York City - in an instantly recognizable manner. This is a collection to savor.......more

Goodreads review by scherzo♫ on April 07, 2022

From The Little Disturbances of Man -The Pale Pink Roast -An Interest in Life Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life -A Subject of Childhood -Enormous Changes at the Last Minute -Debts -Living -A Conversation with My Father -The Immigrant Story -The Long Distance Runner -From Later the Same Day -Dream......more