Description: A collection of works, both fictional and non-fictional, gathered together here for the first time --
Review Quotes:
Previous praise for Tillie Olsen's work
"[The Tell Me a Riddle collection] exists in the realm in which craftsmanship is transformed into mystery, and criticism comes close to irrelevance."--Granville Hicks, Saturday Review of Literature
"They are alive, her people. . . . [Olsen] creates them with a feeling and understanding so deep as to be literally painful."--New York Times Book Review
"Out of poverty and hardship . . . [Olsen] reveals with compression, depth, and a passionate economy of language a working-class America that few writers have known or realized existed."--London Tribune -- (3/5/2013 12:00:00 AM)