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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...
27 ago 2011 · For the first 13 years of his life, his family lived in the Bronx, but as their toy business prospered, they moved to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His first produced play was No Time for Sergeants (1956), which was about a Southern country boy in the U.S. Marines.
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.
11 dic 2019 · Like much of American society, the Paley family rearranged itself through the decade of the 60s. While her personal “neighborhood” enlarged—extending her network of local and family ties— Grace reshaped or created new emotional alliances and connections, some of which provided essential sustenance for years and continue to ...
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, twenty years her junior but with much the same cultural background (New York, Jewish, socialist), is to leap from the portentous aesthetic manifestoes of pre-World War
29 giu 2015 · “As a person she is tolerant and easygoing, as a user of words, merciless,” the editors of The Paris Review wrote in the introduction to their 1992 interview with poet, short story writer, educator, and activist Grace Paley (December 11, 1922–August 22, 2007).
