Enormous Changs at The Last Minute [Import] [Paperback]

Grace Paley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Noonday, 1993; New Ed edition (1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0860681084
• ISBN-13: 978-0860681083
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,217,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary, March 24, 2001

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This review is from: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories (Paperback)

This is one of the best books of American short stories, period. Whether you sympathize with Paley's politics or social concerns, it's irrelevant. Her stories beautifully capture the minutiae of everyday life and expose it for it's life-changing import. A simple sentence of Paley's can say as much as another author's entire novel. If you're at all interested in the short-story form or good writing in general, don't pass this book up.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read, laugh, cry, rush onward, June 27, 2009

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T. Harris "http://talkaboutquality.wordpress.com" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories (Paperback)

Good writing is a book that you just can't put down. Crazy fantastic writing is a book that you close, bookmark in place, because you want to save more for later. And meanwhile go out and tell a friend, who asks the obvious question: why wasn't Paley much more well-known?

Not every one of these short stories is great, but all explode with amazingly evocative lines. Conversations sizzle, metaphors shimmer. Characters are immediately realistic, and whole. No, actually, many are broken, but that's what real people are like. Read, laugh, cry, rush onward.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful book, August 27, 2007

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molly (san francisco, california) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories (Paperback)

Grace Paley is one of my favorite writers in the world, and this is my favorite of all her books. Every story here is funny and original and gorgeously written. She's one of the wisest and most generous writers I've ever read, and I'd recommend this book to anyone.