What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few writers have captured the quiet desperation of working-class American life with the precision and emotional force of Raymond Carver, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love stands as his masterwork. This landmark 1981 short story collection chronicles seventeen spare, unsettling tales of ordinary men and women — couples drinking in kitchens, neighbours in conflict, survivors of accidents and heartbreak — all circling the same elusive, unnameable feeling at the centre of human connection. Carver's prose strips language down to its barest bones, and in that austere minimalism, something vast and aching opens up between the lines. Widely credited with revitalising the American short story and establishing the movement known as Dirty Realism, this collection secured Carver's place alongside Chekhov and Hemingway as one of the great masters of short-form fiction. His dialogue crackles with subtext, his silences speak louder than words, and his characters — flawed, tender, and deeply human — linger long after the final page. A book that asks the most fundamental question of our lives and refuses to offer an easy answer, it is an essential cornerstone of 20th-century literature.
Author: Raymond Carver
Format: Paperback
Published: 1996, Vintage Books
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers have captured the quiet desperation of working-class American life with the precision and emotional force of Raymond Carver, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love stands as his masterwork. This landmark 1981 short story collection chronicles seventeen spare, unsettling tales of ordinary men and women — couples drinking in kitchens, neighbours in conflict, survivors of accidents and heartbreak — all circling the same elusive, unnameable feeling at the centre of human connection. Carver's prose strips language down to its barest bones, and in that austere minimalism, something vast and aching opens up between the lines. Widely credited with revitalising the American short story and establishing the movement known as Dirty Realism, this collection secured Carver's place alongside Chekhov and Hemingway as one of the great masters of short-form fiction. His dialogue crackles with subtext, his silences speak louder than words, and his characters — flawed, tender, and deeply human — linger long after the final page. A book that asks the most fundamental question of our lives and refuses to offer an easy answer, it is an essential cornerstone of 20th-century literature.