What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- Schrijver: Raymond Carver (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Verhalen
- Taal: Engels
- Eerste uitgave: 1981
- Nederlandse vertaling: Beginners
- Hertuitgave: Vintage Classic
- Omvang: 144 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Recensie en waardering voor de verhalen van Raymond Carver
- “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.” (Michael Wood, The New York Times Book Review)
Flaptekst van de verhalenbundel van Raymond Carver
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s.