A Grace Paley Reader - Stories, Essays, and Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Grace Paley; Edited by Kevin Bowen and Nora Paley; Introduction by George Saunders Klappentext 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 communities-New York City and rural Vermont.

Product details

• Authors: Grace Paley, Grace/ Bowen Paley
• Assisted by: Kevin Bowen (Editor), Nora Paley (Editor)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 28.02.2017, delayed
• EAN: 9780374165826
• ISBN: 978-0-374-16582-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, POETRY / American / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Readers, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General