Grace Paley’s work, “Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life,” comprises a pair of stories, “The Used-Boy Raisers,” and “A Subject of Childhood.” The prior describes what unfolds when a mother’s two ex-husbands visit her. The latter chronicles the mother’s experience spending the day with her two sons and her boyfriend. This pair of stories explores themes of love, parenthood, and coming of age.
The American writer Grace Paley (born 1922) is best known for her three collections of short stories, The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974), and Later the S...
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Grace Paley's short stories are vivid examples of twentieth-century American local color and regional sensibility. Populated by many a hue and caste of New York citizen and narrated in a supple, percu...
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Few other fiction writers in late twentieth-century American letters have had so great an influence as Grace Paley on the basis of so few books in a lifetime of work. Even fewer fiction writers--one t...
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Grace Paley
Grace Paley