What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
Book Review: America Exposed
Summary: 5 Stars
Like all of Carver's books, this one is excellent. What more can I say? Buy it, buy it, buy it!Book Review: An essential book by Gordon Lish
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the one book of Carver's that will endure, and we have Gordon Lish to thank for that.Book Review: Who We Talk About When We Talk About Carver
Summary: 5 Stars
The question of authorship should be immaterial to the reading of this work. Do we care what was left out? Do we care who wrote which sentence? In the end, whatever the process that produced them, this collection contains some of the most tragically beautiful stories I've read. The prose is minimal, but masterfully minimal -- it feels like the stories form the briefest of forays across the skin of a giant animal, and though you can't tell exactly what the animal is, or where it is going, you know there is something vaguely wrong, deep down below. The style Carver employs means that the smallest of incidents become important in mysterious ways, as if each part of the story, no matter how seemingly insignificant, contains part of the clue to the whole. But because of the sparse nature of the work, the clues never sum to a complete solution -- I feel like these stories reside somewhere between the tiny fictions we invent for people we glance at in the street, and fully-fledged realism which doesn't leave us room for imagination. Carver takes this space and with deft touches makes it seem both familiar and strange. Can't say enough about him. If you aspire to writing short stories, this will either set the bar for you or make you want to give up...Book Review: Not for a shallow mind
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading the stories by Raymond Carver, I realized I may never truly understand any dead white men. I can't think of a better compliment than that.Book Review: SHORT BUT NOT REALLY SWEET
Summary: 5 Stars
As an author with my debut novel in its initial release, I cut my first writing teeth on short stories and I clearly realize Raymond Carver's brilliance. All of his collections are excellent. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE is among his best. Carver can pour more felt life into a few thousand words than most of us other writers can do in tens of thousands of words. These stories--some odd, some simple, all minimalist--showcase Carver's talent as well as those in any other collection. If I could have ever learned to write short stories as powerful as Carver's, I likely would have never begun my successful career as a novelist.