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Article: Passionate attachments The off-the-rack wisdom of Grace Paley's stories has earned her a quarter-century of devotion
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 3, 1994
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GRACE PALEY
The Collected Stories.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 386 pp. $27.50.
Gail Caldwell is book editor of the Globe.
With her barley-soup intimacies and her West Village activism,
Grace Paley is as New York as the Flatiron Building, and virtually as
rare. Over the past 25 years her sad, funny, inimitable voice has
chronicled a postwar urban milieu -- Jewish, leftish, life-or-death
ironic -- that modern fiction would have been all the paler without.
Her women work two jobs and dream about striking it rich on TV game
shows; in real life, they're picketing in the park or arguing with
the grocer over iceberg lettuce and Chilean plums. The men generally
mean well, but they tend to ...