What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

**The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” ( *The New York Review of Books* )—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman. ** Raymond Carver’s America is … clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories…. [Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own, like no other except that very world, as Wordsworth said, which is the world to all of us. — *The New York Times Book Review*

Author	Raymond Carver
Book Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Format	Ebook
ISBN	9780679723059
Language	English
Pages	159
Publication Date	06-01-1989
Publisher	Vintage Books

1 review for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Rated 5 out of 5

madmel (verified owner) – 04/29/2025

I was looking forward to this book since a friend recommended it. I knew going into it that they were shower stories where not much was happening, but a lot had happened for the characters at the same time. I didn’t have an issue with this, as I thought it was a neat idea. But I only got 5 or 6 stories in and called it quits. It’s not because I couldn’t understand the stories, but because they were mainly all about men with some sort of alcohol problem and women issues. I thought the stories would be more diverse, but it’s the same thing over and over again. This book may be for some readers, but as a woman I just could not connect to it and bring myself to continue reading. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love could have been better if it was more diverse.

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