What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Nov '09
Should be back in stock very soon
The short story that inspired the play at the heart of BIRDMAN starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone
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.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.
The master craftsman of the modern American short story * Daily Telegraph *
One of America's most original, truest voices
One of the most celebrated American short-story writers of the 20th century * New York Times *
A remarkable collection * New York Review of Books *
I remember being floored by the first Raymond Carver collection I read: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love * New York Times *
Raymond Carver's stories can now be counted amongst the masterpieces of American fiction * New York Times *
These brilliant shards - some no more than three or four pages long - confirm Carver's place in the hall of America's great writers and suggest that, with his hero Chekhov, he was one of the world's masters of the short story * Times Literary Supplement *
Raymond Carver uses the English language like a whittler's knife, carving stark and unadorned prose-objects, paring away everything but the very core of human emotion * Chicago Tribune *
ISBN: 9780099530329
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 9mm
Weight: 108g
144 pages