{"product_id":"what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-love-isbn-9780679723059","title":"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e)—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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eWhy Don't You Dance?\u003cbr\u003eViewfinder\u003cbr\u003eMr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit\u003cbr\u003eGazebo\u003cbr\u003eI Could See the Smallest Things\u003cbr\u003eSacks\u003cbr\u003eThe Bath\u003cbr\u003eTell the Women We're Going\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Demin\u003cbr\u003eSo Much Water So Close to Home\u003cbr\u003eThe Third Thing That Killed My Father Off\u003cbr\u003eA Serious Talk\u003cbr\u003eThe Calm\u003cbr\u003ePopular Mechanics\u003cbr\u003eEverything Stuck to Him\u003cbr\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love\u003cbr\u003eOne More Thing\"One of the true contemporary masters.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carver's fiction is so spare in manner that it takes a time before one realizes how completely a whole culture and a whole moral condition is represented by even the most seemingly slight sketch. This second volume of stories is clearly the work of a full-grown master.\" —Frank Kermode\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Splendid.... The collection as a whole, unlike most, begins to grow and resonate in a wonderful cumulative effect.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carver not only enchants, he convinces.\" —\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003eRAYMOND CARVER was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eWill You Please Be Quiet, Please\u003c\/i\u003e (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by \u003ci\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and \u003ci\u003eWhere I'm Calling From\u003c\/i\u003e in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of \u003ci\u003eA New Path to the Waterfall.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302506254565,"sku":"NP9780679723059","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679723059.jpg?v=1767743910","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-love-isbn-9780679723059","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}