What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories by Raymond Carver (English)

Description: What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories by Raymond Carver In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carvers characters are peripheral people—people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 ones way through the dark. Author Biography 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 Im 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. Table of Contents Why Dont You Dance? Viewfinder Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit Gazebo I Could See the Smallest Things Sacks The Bath Tell the Women Were 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 Review "Carvers 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 Carvers 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 OBrien, Chicago Tribune Book World "Carver not only enchants, he convinces." --J.D. Reed, Time Review Quote "Carvers 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 Carvers 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 OBrien, Chicago Tribune Book World "Carver not only enchants, he convinces." --J.D. Reed, Time Details ISBN0679723056 Author Raymond Carver Short Title WHAT WE TALK ABT WHEN WE TALK Pages 176 Language English ISBN-10 0679723056 ISBN-13 9780679723059 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 1989 Publication Date 1989-06-30 Imprint Vintage Books Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publisher Vintage Books Series Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback) Residence US Birth 1938 Death 1988 Subtitle Stories DOI 10.1604/9780679723059 Audience General/Trade We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:2621371;

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