The Washington Post, April 17th, 1994
THE COLLECTED STORIES By Grace Paley Farrar Straus Giroux. 464 pp. $27.50 GRACE PALEY'S stories have achieved something of a cult or classic status, and with good reason. Since their first appearance in book form in 1959 with The Little Disturbances of Man, they have been notable for their humor and urban grit, their quick-witted sadness, and for their voices. No one else's stories sound like these. The stories don't seem literary so much as colloquial socialist-democratic, spoken aloud on a street corner or a front stoop, to witnesses. This book brings together all 45 of them, from the first ...
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