The collected stories

Author

Grace Paley

Call Number

• FICTION PALE (CEN)

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994.

Physical Description

xi, 386 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

• Contents: Two ears, three lucks (p.ix)
• The little disturbances of man. Goodbye and good luck (p.3)
• A woman, young and old (p.14)
• The pale pink roast (p.26)
• The loudest voice (p.34)
• The contest (p.41) - An interest in life (p.50)
• An irrevocable diameter (p.66)
• Two short sad stories from a long and happy life: The used-boy raisers (p.81); A subject of childhood (p.88)
• In time which made a moneky of us all (p.97)
• The floating truth (p.115)
• Enormous changes at the last minute. Wants (p.129)
• Debts (p.132)
• Distance (p.135)
• Faith in the afternoon (p.146)
• Gloomy tune (p.161)
• Living (p.165)
• Come on, ye sons of art (p.168)
• Faith in a tree (p.175)
• Samuel (p.195)
• The burdened man (p.199).

• Contents (cont.): Enormous changes at the last minute (p.204)
• Politics (p.22)
• Northeast playground (p.223)
• The little girl (p.226)
• A conversation with my father (p.232)
• The immigrant story (p.238)
• The long-distance runner (p.242)
• Later the same day. Love (p.261)
• Dreamer in a dead language (p.265)
• In the garden (p.284)
• Somewhere else (p.288)
• Lavinia : an old story (p.298)
• Friends (p.302)
• At that time, or the history of a joke (p.316)
• Anxiety (p.319)
• In this country, but in another language, my aunt refuses to marry the men everyone wants her to (p.323)
• Mother (p.325)
• Ruthy and Edie (p.327)
• A man told me the story of his life (p.335)
• The story hearer (p.337)
• This is a story about my friend George, the toy inventor (p.346)
• Zagrowsky tells (p.348)
• The expensive moment (p.365) - Listening (p.375).