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Grace Paley explores the "little disturbances" that lie behind our everyday lives. Whether writing about sexy little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, she captures the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of human experience with matchless style.
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Classical in form, prestige, spare and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Grace Paley
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- Doubleday, btb Verlag, Meridan Books
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Japanese, tur, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780670431793
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