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Published by Penguin Books, 1985
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- Title
- The Little Disturbances of Man
- Author
- Paley, Grace
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140075577
- ISBN 13
- 9780140075571
Whether 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.
"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
"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
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About the Author
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.
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