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  <title><![CDATA[Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;In this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley &quot;makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant&quot; (Angela Carter, &lt;i&gt;London Review of Books&lt;/i&gt;). Her stories here capture &quot;the itch of the city, love between parents and children&quot; and &quot;the cutting edge of combat&quot; (Lis Harris, &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review&lt;/i&gt;).  In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a &quot;solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life&quot; (Walter Clemons, &lt;i&gt;Newsweek&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1960</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a strange collection of stories.  This wasn't at all what I expected, although I'd always heard about Grace Paley in conjunction with others of my favorite writers (esp. Donald Barthelme).  I don't know why I picked up this book today--I think it was a mention of her name in a <em>Bookforum</em> article...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17243448">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[lovers of bold, unconventional stories.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 19 14:08:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 25 13:53:30 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elizabeth bought me the old-school Virago edition of this collection published in the 60's.  There's a little sticker inside the front cover that says 'From the collection of Angela Carter.' Totally awesome.<br/><br/>It's amazing what Paley can accomplish with such economy: absurdity, tragedy, sly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46887920">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 27 14:36:45 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 28 17:28:49 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Donald Barthelme once affectionately called her a troublemaker, but I don't know that it's strictly true. <br/><br/>I think she just understood that trouble was never trouble at all--trouble is just everything that actually matters (the blood and money stuff that comes with caring)--and that we co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2457875">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 24 12:06:58 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 24 20:38:34 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first read this book, I didn't get it. Then I heard Grace Paley read some of these stories and that's when I got a sense of what she had done. She was telling a story like a friend would tell you a story. Little things become elaborate and beautiful.]]></body>
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    <review id="10431208">
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 14 13:30:26 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 14 13:57:06 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just got this in the mail via Bookmooch. Yay! I have heard tell that Grace Paley--who writes about urbane Jewish girls, ahem--doesn't care about plotting. She is more interested in what she calls &quot;movement.&quot; Obviously, we're meant for each other.]]></body>
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    <review id="63929">
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 20 18:37:57 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book I ever read of Grace Paley. I had no idea what I had been missing. I remember sitting in college, devouring her books like a hungry child, hoping one day to only be half as great as this book was.]]></body>
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    <review id="20620410">
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 20 22:18:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 10 23:13:54 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was like meeting a stranger pal on the curb, having a heart-to-heart affirming that bastards are part of life then going about your business.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20620410]]></url>
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    <review id="16775196">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Mar 01 11:36:14 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;wants&quot; is one of my all-time favorite stories.  this is a collection full of mothers and children and politics and change.  it is a quick, but engaging read.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16775196]]></url>
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    <review id="18009086">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 18 08:28:21 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 18 08:28:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/><br/> ]]></body>
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    <review id="26598698">
    <user id="90786">
    <name><![CDATA[Lee]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 07 19:23:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 12 06:26:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In &quot;Conversations with My Father,&quot; the narrator's father wants her to tell a simple story about simple people, like a story by de Maupassant, and she says, &quot;I would like to try to tell such a story, if he means the kind that begins: 'There was a woman ...' followed by a plot, the abso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26598698">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26598698]]></url>
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    <review id="18978078">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tania]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ranchos De Taos, NM]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 30 05:18:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 14 03:27:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection contains one of my all time favourite stories - Wants. It's effectively a flash, about 800 words, but reads so richly you don't notice Paley's economy. Also a very funny story in places (especially if you resonate with a narrator who can never check off everything on her To Do list.)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18978078">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18978078]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="73672184">
    <user id="231689">
    <name><![CDATA[Camilla]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[michelle s., sarah, carey]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 06 15:57:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 13 13:06:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a surprise. The first story (I think my favorite) contains an entire lifetime in 3 pages, and I don't mean a chronology. She manages to convey something complete through a few details, a single scenario. I want to read more of her.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73672184]]></url>
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    <review id="74987151">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 18 21:36:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 18 21:37:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to check out the first story in this book based on Camilla's review, ended up reading the whole book. Quick stories, excellent when you are sick of school work.]]></body>
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    <review id="56050884">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified.<br/>He said, What? What life? No life of mine.<br/>I said, O.K. I don't argue when there's real disagreement. I got up and went into the library to see how much I owed them.&quot;<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="21451606">
    <user id="324370">
    <name><![CDATA[Lisa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bronx, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 02 07:12:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 15 08:20:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Grace Paley. It's funny -- I know that for a certain subset of readers and writers, female/urban/Jewish/east coast, she's pretty much canon. And I can see why. But I'm surprised, and a little amused, at how very retro it sounds to my 2008 ears. It's a great voice, though, and I can...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21451606">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21451606]]></url>
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    <review id="74517011">
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    <name><![CDATA[Pantherjet]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Oct 14 11:02:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grace was the funniest, wisest trouble maker I have ever read. She owned the language.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74517011]]></url>
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    <review id="42191236">
    <user id="1749027">
    <name><![CDATA[Brendan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 06 23:15:16 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 06 23:16:00 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could read that first story &quot;Debts&quot; over and over and over...]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42191236]]></url>
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    <review id="73774489">
    <user id="634557">
    <name><![CDATA[Sara]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 14:23:23 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 07 14:10:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 07 14:23:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Borrowed from Mary's aunt upon moving to New York. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paley's stories are as perfect as her titles. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i like grace paley's writing. when i read it i can imagine talking to her and her saying things the way she writes them. her writing can be sarcastic, and the characters usually seem like they're ok and even happy even though they don't believe its possible for their lives or anyone's to have a cohe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7344651">more...</a>]]></body>
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