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These unforgettable tragi-comic stories have echoes of Dorothy Parker, but the style, wit and imaginative darling of vision are unmistakably Grace Paley's own. Wry, sardonic, often brutally funny, she speaks with disconcerting honesty about people in and out of love, husbands and wives, parents and children, passing strangers. Her characters inhabit a world of two little money, too many kids, of husbands gone off somewhere, probably for good. Their illusions shattered, they are all survivors, facing the vicissitudes of life with a mixture of cheerful optimism and rueful acceptance.