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Jan 1, 1922 — Jan 1, 2007· 85 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS

Grace Paley

Also known as: GRACE PALEY

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Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007), née Goodside, was an American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist. Paley wrote three critically acclaimed collections of short stories, which were compiled in the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Collected Stories in 1994. Her stories home in on the everyday conflicts and heartbreaks of city life, heavily informed by her childhood in the Bronx. Paley’s writing is widely recognized for its distinctive authorial voice.

The Bronx, United States
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'I am Mrs da Tanka,' said Mrs da Tanka.

— from The collected stories

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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

1975

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The little disturbances of man

1969

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Grace Paley explores the "little disturbances" that lie behind our everyday lives. Whether writing about sexy little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, she captures the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of human experience with matchless style.

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The collected stories

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William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is the ultimate collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating 'Memories of Youghal' to the bittersweet 'Bodily Secrets' and the elegiac 'Two More Gallants', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.

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