New Releases by Grace Paley

" Une douzaine de nouvelles qui sont d''une lecture désopilante. Des histoires de femmes de tous âges, racontées à la première personne par un écrivain qui sait raconter et qui s''est forgé un style tout à fait original et personnel. " Nicole Zand, Le Monde. " Avec Grace Paley, on ne saura jamais si le monde est un sujet de cafard ou de rigolade... Grace Paley, c''est Salinger au féminin. " Frédéric Ferney, Le Nouvel Observateur.

    This first collaboration of two long-time feminist and antiwar activists is a wonderful melding of word and image that creates a powerful call for world peace. Paley''s poems and short fiction and William''s vivid watercolors depict the beauty and dignity of "ordinary" lives from El Salvador to the Bronx, from New Hampshire to Vietnam. Scenes and stories of domestic life, solitude, and nature are interspersed with heart-wrenching images of women widowed and children crippled by war and incarcerated by urban poverty, Here, too, are stories and paintings of protest, joyous and defiant.

Recueil de brèves nouvelles: drames minuscules et bonheurs ordinaires. Des textes qui, comme l''écrit F. Bott dans ##Le Monde## du 18 avril 1980, p. 15, prennent souvent la forme d''énigmes, de contes philosophiques.

In these 17 stories, a small circle of intelligent, concerned friends cluster about a central figure, Faith, who listens, observes, questions, remembers, and records their lifelong attachments. In this selection of her work over the past 10 years, Paley''s themes have changed only as much as life''s constants change with the passage of time. Her characters are deeply involved with their parents, their lovers and friends, and their children, and the welfare of the wider community. In these stories we meet the neighborhood druggist with his tale of familial heartbreak; a father in Puerto Rico who cannot accept the loss of his child by kidnapping; a black woman who bemoans woman''s lot; a visitor from China who is concerned about how to raise children; a craftsman whose beautiful creation is stillborn. The whole collection is graced with the author''s warmth and aphoristic wit, her telling ear for dialogue, and her quintessential storytelling art. ISBN 0-374-18409-7: $13.95.

Presenting mathematical ideas of peoples from a variety of small-scale and traditional cultures, this book humanizes our view of mathematics and expands our conception of what is mathematical.

A collection of short stories, originally published in 1974.

Records one woman''s response to the love-hate relationships, inhibitions and selfconcerns of men and women