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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 communitiesNew York City and rural Vermont.

A Grace Paley Reader

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    A Paperback / softback by Grace Paley, Kevin Bowen, Nora Paley

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 3 April 2018
      ISBN-13 9780374537418
      978-0374537418
      ISBN-10 0374537410

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 communitiesNew York City and rural Vermont.

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