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What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories

by Raymond Carver

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Publisher Comments:

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.

Review:

"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

Review:

"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

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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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Table of Contents

Why Don't You Dance?

Viewfinder

Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit

Gazebo

I Could See the Smallest Things

Sacks

The Bath

Tell the Women We're Going

After the Demin

So Much Water So Close to Home

The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off

A Serious Talk

The Calm

Popular Mechanics

Everything Stuck to Him

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

One More Thing

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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

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:

c198

Edition Number:

Vintage Books ed.

Edition Description:

1489342

Series:

Vintage Contemporaries

Series Volume:

C-598

Publication Date:

19890631

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

176

Dimensions:

8 x 5.16 x 0.49 in 0.4 lb

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Product details 176 pages Vintage Books USA - 1995-06-19 English 9780679723059 Reviews:

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

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