The Pale Pink Roast Overview
Grace Paley’s short story, “The Pale Pink Roast,” details a man’s day visiting his ex-wife and daughter. The man, Peter, takes his ex-wife, Anna, to her apartment. In the apartment, Peter and Anna flirt, argue, and talk about their lives. This story explores themes of vanity, love, and greed.
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Grace Paley Biographies (3)
1,910 words, approx. 7 pages
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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4,549 words, approx. 16 pages
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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7,515 words, approx. 26 pages
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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