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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver
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Description for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Paperback. A collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s.
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099530329
SKU
9780099530329
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About Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to come second to earning a living for his young family. Despite, small-press publication, it was not until Will You Please Be Quiet Please? appeared in ... Read more
Reviews for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
The master craftsman of the modern American short story
Daily Telegraph
One of America's most original, truest voices
Salman Rushdie One of the most celebrated American short-story writers of the 20th century
New York Times
A remarkable collection
New York Review of Books
I remember being floored by the first Raymond Carver collection ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
One of America's most original, truest voices
Salman Rushdie One of the most celebrated American short-story writers of the 20th century
New York Times
A remarkable collection
New York Review of Books
I remember being floored by the first Raymond Carver collection ... Read more