A Grace Paley Reader by Paley, Grace -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Foreword by Kevin Bowen Introduction: “The Saint of Seeing” by George Saunders I. Stories

From The Little Disturbances of Man

Goodbye and Good Luck A Woman, Young and Old The Loudest Voice An Interest in Life Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life

1. The Used-Boy Raisers 2. A Subject of Childhood

From Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Living Come On, Ye Sons of Art Faith in a Tree Enormous Changes at the Last Minute A Conversation with My Father The Long-Distance Runner

From Later the Same Day

Friends Mother Ruthy and Edie Zagrowsky Tells

II. Essays

From Just As I Thought

Injustice The Illegal Days Jobs Six Days: Some Rememberings Cop Tales The Seneca Stories: Tales from the Women’s Peace Encampment Women’s Pentagon Action Unity Statement Of Poetry and Women and the World Thinking About Barbara Deming The Gulf War Report from North Vietnam El Salvador Other People’s Children Some Notes on Teaching: Probably Spoken Imagining the Present The Value of Not Understanding Everything Feelings in the Presence of the Sight and Sound of the Bread and Puppet Theater Traveling

From Long Walks and Intimate Talks

Midrash on Happiness

III. Poems

Fidelity For Danny My Mother: 33 Years Later Suddenly There’s Poughkeepsie In the Bus A Poem About Storytelling News Connections: Vermont Vietnam (I) Connections: Vermont Vietnam (II) In San Salvador (I) That Country On the Ramblas A Tree A Girl People in My Family My Father at 85 Sisters On Occasion Anti-Love Poem My Sister and My Grandson Fathers Luck The Hard-Hearted Rich Responsibility For My Daughter Letter Fear Families Saint-John’s-wort! Goldenrod Then Is There a Difference Between Men and Women Definition Education One Day This Hill

Notes Afterword by Nora Paley Chronology A Short List for Suggested Further Reading Also by Grace Paley A Note About the Author Newsletter Sign-up Contents Copyright

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