num_pages: 400
description: This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again. Whether writing about the love (and conflict) between parents and children or between husband and wife, or about the struggles of aging single mothers or disheartened political organizers to make sense of the world, she brings the same unerring ear for the rhythm of life as it is actually lived.The Collected Stories is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
language: English
title: The Collected Stories
titlecomplete: The Collected Stories (FSG Classics)
genres: Classics, American, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Short Story Collection, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 3211
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux