Just As I Thought

Name: Just As I Thought
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ISBN: 9780374525859

ISBN-10: 0374525854

ISBN-13: 9780374525859

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Authors: Grace Paley

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This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have from this quintessentially American writer, Just As I Thought gives us a chance to see Paley not only as a writer and "troublemaker" but also as a daughter, sister, mother, and grandmother. Through her descriptions of her childhood in the Bronx and her experiences as an antiwar activist to her lectures on writing and her recollections of other writers, these pieces are always alive with Paley's inimitable voice, humor, and wisdom.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.58" wide x 8.29" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Grace Paley is a writer, teacher, feminist, and activist. Her Collected Stories (FSG 1994) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in New York City and Vermont.



Introduction


Injustice


The Unfinished Bronx


The Illegal Days


Jobs


Six Days: Some Rememberings


Traveling


Peacemeal


Other Mothers


Like All the Other Nations


Home


Two Villages


Report from North Vietnam


Everybody Tells the Truth


"The Man in the Sky Is a Killer"


Thieu Thi Tao: Case History of a Prisoner of Politics


Conversations in Moscow


Other People's Children


Demystified Zone


Some History on Karen Silkwood Drive


Cop Tales


Women's Pentagon Action Unity Statement


The Seneca Stories: Tales from the Women's Peace Encampment


Pressing the Limits of Action


Of Poetry and Women and the World


El Salvador


The Value of Not Understanding Everything


Some Notes on Teaching: Probably Spoken


One Day I Made Up a Story


Imagining the Present


Notes in Which Answers Are Questioned


Christa Wolf


Coat upon a Stick


Language: On Clarice Lispector


Isaac Babel


About Donald Bartheime: Some Nearly Personal Notes


Thinking about Barbara Deming


Feelings in the Presence of the Sight and Sound of the Bread and Puppet Theater


Claire Lalone


Kay Boyle


The Gulf War


Connections


Questions


How Come?


Upstaging Time


Life in the Country: A City Friend Asks, "Is It Boring?"


Across the River


In a Vermont Jury Room


Introduction to a Haggadah


My Father Tells a Story: "I Should Have Been a Lawyer"


My Father at Eighty-Five


My Father at Eighty-nine