A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry

Paley, Grace

ISBN 10: 0374165823 / ISBN 13: 9780374165826

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017

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"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. 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Grace Paley, born in the Bronx in 1922, was a renowned writer and activist. Her Collected Stories was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her other collections include Enormous Changes at the Last Minute and Just As I Thought. She died in Vermont on August 22, 2007.

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Titel: A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and ...
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
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