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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

by Raymond Carver · 1981

Literary Fiction · ranked #20 in category

Sixteen compact, stripped-down stories about ordinary Americans in crisis — marriages failing, drinks being poured, the things people cannot say to each other. Carver's most celebrated collection established minimalism as a mode in American short fiction and showed how much could be conveyed through what is left unsaid.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1981 · 1980s
Author
Raymond Carver
Standing
Essential Read

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