What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099530329 (0099530325)
ASIN: 99530325
Publish date: November 5th 2009
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 134
Edition language: English
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone’s heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.” in “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish Imagine the following sentence: “By 8 AM I wake...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, fraudio, published-1981, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, tbr-busting-2015 Read from December 07, 2011 to February 24, 2015 Description: This powerful collection of stories, set in the Northwest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease...
Acabo de ver Birdman. Y la amé.
I enjoy that Carver experimented with form, language, and style but the plot of many of the stories are not my cup of tea. That being said, one story which I do quite like is "Everything Stuck to Him" on page 127.
Terse. Spare. Amazing. Carver's vision was singular and pure. His words fall like rain, inevitable and clear.
8 years ago
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