An edition of What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (1981)

What we talk about when we talk about love

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What we talk about when we talk about love
Raymond Carver
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An edition of What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (1981)

What we talk about when we talk about love

stories

Vintage Books ed.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.31 ·
  • 13 Ratings
  • 153 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 15 Have read

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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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
159

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Subjects
Translations from American, Korean Short stories, American Short stories, Translations into Korean, Fiction, Manners and customs, Short stories, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author)

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What we talk about when we talk about love: stories
1989, Vintage Books
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Cover of: What we talk about when we talk about love
What we talk about when we talk about love: stories
1989, Vintage Books
in English - Vintage Books ed.
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: What we talk about when we talk aboutlove
What we talk about when we talk aboutlove: stories
1981, Knopf
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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 denim --
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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Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1981.

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New York
Copyright Date
1981

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.A7894 W4*

The Physical Object

Pagination
159 p. ;
Number of pages
159

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24957267M
ISBN 10
0679723056
ISBN 13
9780679723059
OCLC/WorldCat
20337157

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