Late the Same Day by Gracy Paley

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Late the Same Day by Gracy Paley. 1985 Farrar Straus Giroux, first edition, 211 pages. Paley was an antiwar activist and beloved short-story writer who focused on the daily lives o f women, particularly Jewish New Yorkers. According to Publishers Weekly: "In the 17 short stories collected here, Paley writes with verbal economy and resonance, pithy insights, and warmth and humor. The themes are familiar: friendship, commitment, responsibility, love, political idealism and activism, children, the nuclear shadow." Condition: Jacket VG, book VG with foxing on pastedowns and endpapers "I told my husband, I've just written a poem about love." Show more