what we talk about when we talk about love by raymond carver

Originally published the previous year (1981) in the USA by the venerable Alfred A. These are people rooted in dislocation- like the ghostly occupant in 'Why Don't You Dance?' whose drab history lies spread out for sale on the lawn like the stunned custodians in 'Gazebo,' whose names alone are far more burden than they can manage like the door-to-door photographer in 'Viewfinder,' whose hands have vaporized along with the tragedies he has recorded in his camera like the married couples in the title story, who are waiting to be married to someone else.' (from front flap) The third collection of stories by Raymond Carver (1938-1988, born Raymond Clevie Carver Jr.), the canonical American short story writer & poet considered by some critics to be among the ever-most important, & whose works are now enshrined in the Library of America. Fixit,' offering in mute explanation the kind of vague, dazed admission that might be made by any of the exhausted men and women in these seventeen stories- homeless, jobless, bewildered Americans in hysterical motion from one spoiled place to another. 'I've seen some things,' insists the startled son in 'Mr. 'In Raymond Carver's fiction, the door is always open because someone is always leaving- and the TV is always going because it is safer to look at television than at people.

ISBN: 0002226243 London, England: William Collins Sons & Co.

Carver, Raymond What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

What we talk about when we talk about love by raymond carver