Grace Paley's short stories are a kind of life-force in themselves. Often in her writing, the very form of the story will up and challenge you with its wit, its energy and its talkback; for Paley, voice is always about life. In "Conversation with My Father", she distils into a single story the huge and subtle power in dialogue, the joyful belligerence in

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