What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
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.
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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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394516844 (0394516842)
Publish date: March 12th 1981
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 159
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.
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