What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - The Library of the Uncommons

144 pages

Published July 3, 2003 by Vintage.

ISBN:: 978-0-09-944984-3

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.