Volume 41, Number 14 · August 11, 1994
New Wives' Tales
By Ann Hulbert
The Collected Stories
by Grace Paley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 386 pp., $27.50
Grace Paley was born Grace Goodside in 1922, and reborn in her fiction in 1959 as Faith Darwin, an alter ego whom she endowed with two siblings, Hope and Charles, and to whom she has returned again and again in her stories. As the improbable names suggest, she and her fictional kin are inclined to a rosy view of things, and yet they're also naturalists who acknowledge a cruel competition for survival. What the names don't suggest is that they are Jewish and have no intention of being meek or any expectation of inheriting the earth.
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