The Little Disturbances of Man

With a sure and humorous touch, 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. Book jacket.

Grace Paley was a short story writer, poet, pacifist, political activist, and professor. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction, the Edith Wharton Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award for Literary Arts. She died in 2007.

Goodbye and Good Luck	p. 7
A Woman, Young and Old	p. 23
The Pale Pink Roast	p. 41
The Loudest Voice	p. 53
The Contest	p. 65
An Interest in Life	p. 79
An Irrevocable Diameter	p. 103
Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life
The Used-Boy Raisers	p. 127
A Subject of Childhood	p. 135
In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All	p. 147
The Floating Truth	p. 173
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