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What We Talk about When We Talk about Love : Stories by Raymond Carver (1989, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679723056
ISBN-139780679723059
eBay Product ID (ePID)207233
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhat We Talk about When We Talk about Love : Stories
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1989
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorRaymond Carver
Book SeriesVintage Contemporaries Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Carver's fiction is so spare in manner that it takes a time before one realizes how completely a whole culture and a whole moral condition is represented by even the most seemingly slight sketch. This second volume of stories is clearly the work of a full-grown master." --Frank Kermode "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." --Michael Wood, front page, The New York Times Book 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 "Carver not only enchants, he convinces." --J.D. Reed, Time
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
Table Of ContentWhy 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
SynopsisIn 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., In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman , Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature--a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one's way through the dark., 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
LC Classification NumberPS3568.O243
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- 08 Dec, 2022
Powerful
This is a remarkable collection of short stories. I must admit, it took me a few stories to appreciate Carver’s writing, but after it clicked, it became evident that he deserves his place and acclaim as legendary writer in contemporary American short stories. This was my first time reading Carver, but it definitely won’t be my last. As soon as I was finished with the book I purchased a few more. The books condition was also as described. No problems what so ever with the seller. Two thumbs up!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 05 Jul, 2017
Good Order
The book did not have the same picture on its cover as the one listed here. Besides that, everything was as ordered.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
