What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Raymond Carver
- First Published: 1981
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, Husbands, United States or Americans, Wives, Love or romance, Suicide, Marriage, Doctors, Divorce, Southwest
- Locales: Albuquerque, NM
The Work
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love vaulted Raymond Carver to the forefront of literary attention in the 1980’s. His pared-down style was praised and maligned, and he was celebrated as his generation’s most capable spokesperson for blue-collar frustration.
Ordinary life is the antagonist throughout the seventeen stories. Short on education, Carver’s people work assembly lines, wait tables, stock shelves, and manage second-rate motels. Their houses are trashy; their cars and furniture break down. Treading debt, they sell off their belongings...
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