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What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories Paperback - 1989

by Raymond Carver

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The most celebrated story collection from "one of the true American masters" (The New York Review of Books)--a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one's way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman.

"Raymond Carver's America is ... clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories.... [Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own, like no other except that very world, as Wordsworth said, which is the world to all of us." --The New York Times Book Review

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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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  • Title What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories
  • Author Raymond Carver
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Publication date 1989-06-18
  • ISBN 9780679723059 / 0679723056
  • Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.22 x 0.49 in (20.42 x 13.26 x 1.24 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Short stories, American
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010292768
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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 August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.
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