This collection includes stories about men and women in the thick of life and the tumultuous relationships they share. Anything can, and does, happen to the loving couples, bickering couples, deserted wives and discarded husbands.
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These are stories of real-life love and relationships (ie: imperfect, strange and unexpected - not cheesy or sappy at all). Paley drops the reader into the heart of the character and creates for us a world so vivid, yet so different from what we know, that I felt dizzy the first time I read one of these stories. Her use of language is so perfect it makes me laugh out loud (on the subway) and I enjoy reading any given paragraph over several times. I use this book for inspiration every time I try (in vain) to write something creative myself... check it out!
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What makes Paley worth reading and important is her language, which is plain, simple english, but the order in which she places the words create sentences that burst with gut-life. Her sentences are like clever, immigrant hands--hard-won wisdom with an untiring lust for life. Most of the stories are set in a New York reminiscent of The Honeymooners, unfortunately due to my age my only point of reference. But ultimately, as the subtitle says, these are clear, gritty stories of men and women at love. This is writing that your mother would understand; and make you glad to be alive.
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Grace Paley's stories are of a type--somewhat Jewish and feminist--but her style and wit is so sardonic and original that she escapes stereotyping. Whereas some of her collections are uneven, these stories are uniformly droll and wise. "Goodbye and Good Luck" should not be missed.
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- Later the Same Day (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Grace Paley in Front Matter
- The Sea-Gull by Anton Chekhov on page 11
- Ladies Laughing: Wit as Control in Contemporary American Women Writers (STUDIES IN HUMOR AND GENDER) by Barbara Levy on 4 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Hana Wirth-Nesher in Front Matter, page 115, and page 128
- Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America by James D. Bloom in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Inside the Hornet's Head: An Anthology of Jewish American Writing by Jerome Charyn on page 127, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life) by Joyce Antler on page 139, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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