What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Ratings36
Average rating4.1
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Ratings36
Average rating4.1
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.
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Profound in their simplicity, Carver's stories will remain with me for the rest of my life. Phenomenal collection.
Favorites: • “Viewfinder” • “I Could See the Smallest Things” • “So Much Water So Close to Home” • “The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off” • “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
Holiday tensions
don't ruin the fishing trip
get some on the side.
Cheesy option: Love is like a fishstrive to keep your pond well-stockedlose it anyway.
Although these stories make me deeply melancholy in a way I can't quite describe, I feel like that's probably the point, and they do it so well. Carver's style of prose is so clear and precise, and can say so much with so few words.
