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What we talk about when we talk about love

stories

Vintage Books ed.
  • 4.33 ·
  • 12 Ratings
  • 140 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 14 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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
159

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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.
Cover of: What we talk about when we talk aboutlove
What we talk about when we talk aboutlove: stories
1981, Knopf
in English - 1st ed.

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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.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1981.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3553.A7894 W4 1989, PS3568.O243

The Physical Object

Pagination
159 p. ;
Number of pages
159

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17727768M
ISBN 10
0679723056
LCCN
2010292768
OCLC/WorldCat
20337157
Wikidata
Q100710655
Library Thing
3621
Goodreads
11438

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