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What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories

by Raymond Carver

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ISBN13: 9780679723059
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In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people — people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

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"Carver's America is helpless, clouded by pain and the loss of dreams....It is a place of survivors and a place of stories." New York Times Book Review

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"Splendid....The collection as a whole, unlike most, begins to grow and resonate in a wonderful cumulative effect." Tim O'Brien, Chicago Tribune Book World

About the Author

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in August of that year, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.

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Stacy Green, October 14, 2009 (view all comments by Stacy Green)
Carver never underestimates his readers, taking them along to witness first-hand the dark downward trajectory of a life. His ambiguous endings allow us to cast our own shadows onto these narratives, leaving us to wonder not only about the character of his protagonists, but about our own as well.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679723059
Author:
Carver, Raymond
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Short stories, American
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one auth
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
Edition Number:
Vintage Books ed.
Edition Description:
1489342
Series:
Vintage Contemporaries
Series Volume:
C-598
Publication Date:
19890131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
8.04x5.22x.49 in. .39 lbs.

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