Paley, Grace (Vol. 4) - Paley, Grace 1922–
Paley, Grace 1922–
Mrs Paley, an American short story writer, is the author of The Little Disturbances of Man, stories whose reputation lived primarily "underground" for ten years and were well known only to literary cognoscenti. She is an expert stylist and is considered by many to be one of the masters of the genre. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28.)
Grace Paley's short stories are often so enjoyably ethnic that one may miss, on first reading, some of the several layers of feelings and meanings that are being transmitted…. Paley's writings … also reach deeper on a second reading. One has to become used to incongruous malapropisms, the deliberate innocence that conveys double meanings, the tough-kid humor that pretends to hide (but knows it doesn't) a sympathetic heart. [She] often [uses] language in odd, unexpected, vivid, sometimes lurching ways that make one stop and go back, annoyed, provoked, alerted to fresh...
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