by Raymond Carver · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679723059
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«What We Talk About When We Talk About Love» is Raymond Carver's collection of short stories, published by Vintage in paperback (176 pages, in English).
The stories in the volume follow ordinary people, often without expectations, trying to cope with routine, alcohol, and card games. Love, loss, loneliness, and the difficulty of communicating run through scenes of everyday life narrated in Carver's spare prose. It includes the title story.
It is Raymond Carver's second collection of stories. The stories were originally published in 1981; this edition belongs to the Vintage Contemporaries series.
For readers of American short fiction and literary fiction, especially those who appreciate classics of the contemporary short story.
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in the literary world. It was followed by Cathedral (1983), which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. The definitive collection of his stories, Where I'm Calling From, was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The revival in recent years of the short story is attributable in great measure to Carver's mastery of the form."
