{"title":"Grace Paley","description":"Grace Paley was a short story writer, poet, pacifist, political activist, and professor. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction, the Edith Wharton Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award for Literary Arts. She died in 2007.","products":[{"product_id":"the-little-disturbances-of-man-paperback","title":"The Little Disturbances of Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether writing about relationships, sexy little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, Grace Paley captures the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the human experience with matchless style in this book of short stories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Fresh and vigorous...Mrs. Paley's view of life is her own.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369164177631,"sku":"9780140075571","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/fuirrJwDRf9780140075571.webp?v=1789139268"},{"product_id":"enormous-changes-at-the-last-minute-stories-paperback","title":"Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley \"makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant\" (Angela Carter, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e). Her stories here capture \"the itch of the city, love between parents and children\" and \"the cutting edge of combat\" (Lis Harris, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a \"solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life\" (Walter Clemons, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369816457439,"sku":"9780374515249","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YxTo1pX-7l9780374515249.webp?v=1789146679"},{"product_id":"grace-paley-reader-paperback","title":"Grace Paley Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Books We Loved in 2017\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Grace Paley Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376112894175,"sku":"9780374537418","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PR4A52KAyw9780374537418.webp?v=1789214223"},{"product_id":"begin-again-collected-poems-paperback","title":"Begin Again: Collected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA longtime teacher, activist, feminist, and masterful writer of short fiction and essays, Paley is also an accomplished poet. Combining her two previous collections with unpublished work, \u003ci\u003eBegin Again\u003c\/i\u003e traces the career of a direct, attentive, and always unpredictable poet. Whether describing the vicissitudes of life in New York City or the hard beauty of rural Vermont, whether celebrating the blessings of friendship or protesting against social injustice, her poems brim with compassion and tough good humor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378195366111,"sku":"9780374527242","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/fhatMpNk7_9780374527242.webp?v=1789250822"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/grace-paley.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}