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Ultimately, "Family" by Grace Paley implies that Americans are cold, hard individuals who don't let anyone into their hearts, not even family members, and lose opportunities because of it.
27 ago 2011 · Family. by Grace Paley. My father was brilliant embarrassed funny handsome. my mother was plain serious principled kind. my grandmother was intelligent lonesome for her. other life her dead children silent. my aunt was beautiful bitter angry loving. I fell among these adjectives in earliest childhood. and was nearly buried with opportunity.
Grace Paley, née Goodside (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007) was an American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist . Paley wrote three critically acclaimed collections of short stories, which were compiled in the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Collected Stories in 1994.
22 giu 2020 · The Collected Stories gathers over thirty years of stories from Paley’s previous collections, allowing the reader to track the development of Paley’s feminism and pacifism, as well as her depiction of urban family life.
1 mag 2017 · Paley understood that her family had known hatred and violence in Europe, “that godforsaken place,” which she connected to the American racism she was learning about in the Falcons.
- Alexandra Schwartz
Grace Paley nacque a New York da Isaac e Manya Ridnyik Goodside, che avevano anglicizzato il cognome da "Gutseit" quando erano emigrati dall'Ucraina. Il padre era un dottore. La famiglia parlava russo e yiddish, oltre all'inglese. La più giovane di tre bambini, Grace Paley da piccola era un maschiaccio.
With her first two books of short stories, Grace Paley established her niche in the world of letters. Her distinctive voice and verbal gifts have captured the hearts of critics who praise her vision as well as her style. In short and sometimes plotless tales, she plumbs the lives of working-class…
