The Collected Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Grace Paley
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Social action, Mothers, Parents and children, Feminism, Women’s issues, Christianity, Women, Women’s rights
The first thing one notices about the short stories of Grace Paley is the voice that narrates them. It seems unmistakably the voice of a woman talking to other women. Paley once said in an interview that it was “the dark lives of women” that made her begin to write in the first place, adding that at the time she thought no one would be interested, “but I had to illuminate it anyway.” In a preface written especially for The Collected Stories, she says that in 1954 or 1955, when she first felt the storyteller’s need, she was not sure that she could write the important...
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