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  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525643531
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

Selected Stories of Grace Paley

A Selection

  • Grace Paley


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.

  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525643531
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

Praise for Selected Stories of Grace Paley

Praise for Grace Paley:

  • "Fresh and vigorous...Mrs. Paley's view of life is her own."--The New Yorker

  • "The glad tidings from this reviewer's corner are of the appearance of a [writer] possessed of an all-too-infrequent literary virtue--the comic vision."--The New York Times