What we talk about when we talk about love - The Library of the Uncommons

Paperback, 159 pages

English language

Published Nov. 6, 1989 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-679-72305-9
OCLC Number:: 20337157

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.

7 editions

Michael Steeves reviewed What we talk about when we talk about love by Raymond Carver

A treatise on dysfunction and toxic masculinity

3 stars

This book is a collection of Carver short stories, including the titular "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". All of them feature some sort of loving relationship, usually breaking due to dysfunction (almost always helped along by toxic masculinity).

An OK read that went fairly fast (though because I didn't keep reading consistently I had a bit of a gap after the loan expired). I'm not really sure what it was trying to say other than "There's a lot of different ways to shoot yourself in the foot" though.

This book is a collection of Carver short stories, including the titular "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". All of them feature some sort of loving relationship, usually breaking due to dysfunction (almost always helped along by toxic masculinity).

An OK read that went fairly fast (though because I didn't keep reading consistently I had a bit of a gap after the loan expired). I'm not really sure what it was trying to say other than "There's a lot of different ways to shoot yourself in the foot" though.

Subjects

Short stories