The Little Disturbances of Man

With a sure and humorous touch, Grace Paley explores the "little disturbances" that lie behind our everyday lives. Whether writing about sexy little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, she captures the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of human experience with matchless style.

Themes
womenJewish
Setting
1950sUSA
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Little Disturbances of Man? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Little Disturbances of Man. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Black Tickets: Stories Shares short stories, fiction, barthelme syllabus
  2. Tell Me a Riddle Shares short stories, fiction, barthelme syllabus
  3. The Oranging of America and Other Stories Shares short stories, barthelme syllabus, fiction
  4. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Shares short stories, fiction, literature

“People who read The Little Disturbances of Man tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Gogol's Wife and Other Stories
  2. The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
  3. Falling in Place
  4. Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories

“If you want more of the same (literary fiction about women), start with these.”

  1. Twenty-one Stories
  2. Stories of Erskine Caldwell
  3. The Best Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham
  4. 50 Great Short Stories

“If it was the short stories that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
  2. Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
  3. Birds of America
  4. The Collected Stories

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Great Quillow
  2. Death by Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul
  3. Don't Fight With the Garden Hose and Other Lessons I've Learned Along the Way
  4. Carla Kelly's Christmas Collection