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    <body><![CDATA[the stories are small in scale--domestic settings; blocks, neighborhood playgrounds--but she fills them with rich, aphoristic asides that are not only cosmically wise but really funny. it's interesting, for all the second-person, interiority-oriented writing, paley's stories are fundamentally social...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6144280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't an easy book to read, as the style was very spoken-stream of consciousness, as if the various narrators were involved in a fragmented dialogue with their readers. I guess it was a new style for its time - I am not sure however that it can endure. In the end I want a story.<br/><br/>I f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75609539">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe it took me so long to read Grace Paley.  She passes away a couple weeks ago, and having tackled just a small percentage of her work up to this point, I can truly comprehend the loss felt by the literary world.  So strong, so ahead of her time.  One of those writers who make you feel ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3175321">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I like best about Paley's stories are her cut-to-the-chase descriptions that give so much information in relatively few words. For example: &quot;Her forehead was damp, mouth slightly open between drags, a furious and sweaty face, hardly made up except around the eyes, but certainly cared for, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65546820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i am reading this but not actively - i changes at last minute and disturbances of man and this one has them all.<br/><br/>a steam rolling through your kitchen and a fog rolling up your street.  <br/><br/>she speaks about day to day pain in the neck and lovely things through perception that is sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48393267">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading these stories, especially the earliest and the latest.  In the earliest, the language has the sound of sentences first constructed in Russian then translated into English, but with words selected from a Thesaurus, never those a native speaker would choose.  But that gives a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38075885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, as time went on, as our responsibilities increased, we didn't go in need.  You took adaquate financial care, I reminded him.  The children went to camp four weeks a year and in decent ponchos with sleeping bags and boots, just like everyone else.  They looked very nice.  Our place was warm in wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15072977">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the book that my book club read and discussed for November. There were only 7 of us at the meeting but we happily talked about a writer that we all feel like we should have read years ago who introduces readers to a different part of American life: women who are caring for their children in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36397493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While Grace Paley's style is unique and fascinating for a time, after getting about half way through this collection it became quite clear to me I wasn't going to make it -- and I NEVER start reading a book without finishing. I had expected her subject matter to be of great interest to me -- she was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23047067">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's cliche to talk of Paley's unique voice, but her words sound like no others. These stories are denser than I remember and more playful of time. I had also forgotten the few very bleak stories, but most have threads of hope and of people (mothers, mainly) trying to muddle through the best they ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40276309">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paley has an incredible wit and a talent for expressing the complex political nature of women's lives.  I loved her stories because they are simultaneously hysterical and sad, kind of like life in general.  My favorite book growing up was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and I think I like Paley because she...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13927981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This author was new to me. She is referenced in some of Anne LaMott's work. I am completely hooked on Grace Paley. This book is priceless. Her ability to draw you in quickly to a short story through intense character developement is wonderful. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fearless writer. She did whatever she wanted on the page, and she made the reader like it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Barthelme, but a lady.  Something special.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I've ever read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I sort of wish that I my first volume of Paley's stories had been a thinner one.  As it was, I became sort of overwhelmed by the body of her work all at once, and a lot of the stories began to ran together.  That said, there were several stories that I really liked and which really stood out, and he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39095938">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to order The Quick and the Dead and Like You'd Understand Anyway from my local bookstore, so while I'm waiting for them to arrive, I picked this up. I haven't read much Grace Paley, and I've been meaning to.<br/>***<br/><br/>I haven't been reading this at all, and I have no longing to. Will...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7594982">more...</a>]]></body>
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