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Product Description: Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems. Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont, the poems are sober and playful, experimenting with form while remaining eminently readable...read more
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9780374299064 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 18, 2008, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems.

Paperback:

9780374531713 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 31, 2009), cover price $13.00 | also contains Fidelity: Poems | About this edition: Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems.

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9781587654626 | Revised edition (Salem Pr Inc, September 5, 2008), cover price $217.00

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Product Description: In this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture "the itch of the city, love between parents and children" and "the cutting edge of combat" (Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review)...read more
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9780374515249 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1974, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Seventeen stories written over the past fifteen years reveal the author's vision of human love and tragedy

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9781439512890 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books).

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Product Description: This reissue of Grace Paley’s classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again...read more
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9780374126384 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1994, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: An introduction by Paley accompanies a comprehensive collection of short fiction by the award-winning author of Later the Same Day, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, and The Little Disturbances of Man.
9780374126360 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1994, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: An introduction by Paley accompanies a comprehensive collection of short fiction by the author of 'Later the same day,' 'Enormous changes at the last minute,' and 'The little disturbances of man'

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9780374530280 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 3, 2007, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This reissue of Grace Paley’s classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again.
9780374524319 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1995, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume.

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Product Description: Here two writers married to each other employ dramatically different narrative styles and voices to write politically. Often seriocomic, Grace Paley’s short fiction, including a previously uncollected New Yorker story, features characters “talking in their heads...read more
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9781558615373 | Feminist Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Here two writers married to each other employ dramatically different narrative styles and voices to write politically.

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Product Description:      "Edges" is set in a pre-1967 Israel, during the Cold War.  Liana Barish is fourteen years old when the suicide of her American father forces her to return with her sister and mother to Jerusalem where her mother was born and grew up...read more
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9781930180147 | Glad Day Books, May 30, 2005, cover price $15.00 | About this edition:      "Edges" is set in a pre-1967 Israel, during the Cold War.

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9781588202970 | Authorhouse, June 1, 2001, cover price $15.54

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Combining the poet's four previous collections with new, unpublished poems, this sweeping anthology of a great American poet moves from Manhattan to the quietude of rural Vermont, exploring themes of friendship and social injustice with verve and good humor. Reprint. (view table of contents)
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9780374126421 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Combining the poet's four previous collections with new, unpublished poems, this anthology of a great American poet moves from Manhattan to the quietude of rural Vermont, exploring themes of friendship and social injustice.

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9780374527242 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 2001), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Combining the poet's four previous collections with new, unpublished poems, this anthology of a great American poet moves from Manhattan to the quietude of rural Vermont, exploring themes of friendship and social injustice.

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Product Description: Forgiving stories of women on the edge and in the middle. Ellen Chatfield grows up as part of the Make-Love-Not-War generation, teaches school in Puerto Rico, waitresses in the States, and never stops trying to figure out her personal politics and sexuality...read more
By Grace Paley (foreword by), Louis Rafkin (contributor) and Barbara Selfridge
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9781930180000 | Glad Day Books, January 1, 2000, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Forgiving stories of women on the edge and in the middle.

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787119898 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, October 1, 1999), cover price $13.00

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Grace Paley provides a vivid account of her family, community and political life in a multi-faceted self portrait akin to autobiography. She offers essays on war, racism, feminism and on being arrested, as well as reflections on family, childhood, teaching, writing and being Jewish.
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9780374180607 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author presents a collection of articles, reports, and speeches recounting her family, community, and political life over the past thrity years

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9781860496967 | Gardners Books, August 5, 1999, cover price $15.70 | About this edition: Grace Paley provides a vivid account of her family, community and political life in a multi-faceted self portrait akin to autobiography.
9780374525859 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1999, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The author presents a collection of articles, reports, and speeches recounting her family, community, and political life over the past thrity years

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A collection of short fiction ranging from the 1950s through the 1990s highlights Paley's rich characterizations, use of language, and reflections on contemporary society.
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9780140867862 | Penguin/Highbridge, May 1, 1998, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction ranging from the 1950s through the 1990s highlights Paley's rich characterizations, use of language, and reflections on contemporary society.

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Product Description: Grace Paley's contribution to American literature, while comparatively small in volume, has been substantial in impact. With a voice very much her own, Paley has been a critical force in post-World War II American culture, particularly at its controversial centers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780878059614 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, June 1, 1997, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Grace Paley's contribution to American literature, while comparatively small in volume, has been substantial in impact.

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Records one woman's response to the love-hate relationships, inhibitions and selfconcerns of men and women
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9780140075571, titled "The Little Disturbances of Man" | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 1994), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Records one woman's response to the love-hate relationships, inhibitions and selfconcerns of men and women
9780452253919 | New Amer Library, June 1, 1973, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Records one woman's response to the love-hate relationships, inhibitions and selfconcerns of men and women

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An anthology of stories dealing with aging and the elderly
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9781558760134 | Markus Wiener Pub, December 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An anthology of stories dealing with aging and the elderly

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9781558760622, titled "The "Safe Deposit": And Other Stories About Grandparents, Old Lovers, and Crazy Old Men" | Reprint edition (Markus Wiener Pub, September 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An anthology of stories dealing with aging and the elderly

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9780929696041 | Bumbershoot, July 1, 1992, cover price $8.00

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Product Description: Poetry. " Grace Paley is a poet of great whimsy and wisdom. She is a teller of proverbs, she is funny and poignant, a writer of great power and great delicacy. She is one of our finest - and most original - poets. I love reading her" -Gerald Stern.
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9780884480983 | Tilbury House Pub, March 1, 1992, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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9780884480990 | Tilbury House Pub, March 1, 1992, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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A combination of short stories, poems, and thirty watercolors celebrates peace and the dignity of 'ordinary' lives, from Third World ghettos to New Hampshire, while denouncing the horror and waste of war
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9781558610446 | Feminist Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A combination of short stories, poems, and thirty watercolors celebrates peace and the dignity of 'ordinary' lives, from Third World ghettos to New Hampshire, while denouncing the horror and waste of war

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9780807234754 | Listening Library, June 1, 1988, cover price $18.00

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9781556441660 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95

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9781556441653 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95

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9780961488604 | Granite Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $8.95

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This collection of seventeen short stories deals with characters who are deeply involved with their parents, lovers, children, past, present, future, and the welfare of the community
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9780374184094 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1985, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In this collection of seventeen stories, the author of 'Enormous Changes at the Last Minute' reintroduces familiar characters whose perspectives have matured, but whose activities still center on family pursuits, community welfare, and future plans

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9780140086416 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, April 1, 1986), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This collection of seventeen short stories deals with characters who are deeply involved with their parents, lovers, children, past, present, future, and the welfare of the community

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