Williamsburg Regional Library

The collected stories, Grace Paley

eng

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short stories

The collected stories

Grace Paley

Here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume. Her 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 of short fiction

Goodbye and good luck -- A woman, young and old -- The pale pink roast -- The loudest voice -- The contest -- An interest in life -- An irrevocable diameter -- Two short sad stories of a long and happy life: 1. The used-boy raisers, 2. A subject of childhood -- In time which made a monkey of us all -- The floating truth -- Wants -- Debts -- Distance -- Faith in the afternoon -- Gloomy tune -- Living -- Come on, ye sons of art -- Faith in a tree -- Samuel -- The burdened man -- Enormous changes at the last minute -- Politics -- Northeast playground -- The little girl -- A conversation with my father -- The immigrant story -- The long-distance runner -- Love -- Dreamer in a dead language -- In the garden -- Somewhere else -- Lavinia: an old story -- Friends -- At that time, of The history of a joke -- Anxiety -- In this country, but in another language, my aunt refuses to marry the men everyone wants her to -- Mother -- Ruthy and Edie -- 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 -- The expensive moment -- Listening

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