What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: StoriesThe most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman. "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." —The New York Times Book Review |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 8
Page 93
... pond . But there was nothing to be seen anymore . You could hear the frogs going , but you could hear them going anytime it newly got dark . " Let me get the other crates , " my father said , and he reached over as if to take the hammer ...
... pond . But there was nothing to be seen anymore . You could hear the frogs going , but you could hear them going anytime it newly got dark . " Let me get the other crates , " my father said , and he reached over as if to take the hammer ...
Page 96
... pond . He started walking again . We trailed along behind . We could see the whole pond now , the water dimpled with rising fish . Every so often a bass would leap clear and come down in a splash . “ Great God , ” I heard my father say ...
... pond . He started walking again . We trailed along behind . We could see the whole pond now , the water dimpled with rising fish . Every so often a bass would leap clear and come down in a splash . “ Great God , ” I heard my father say ...
Page 98
... pond . Every time it came up out of the water , it shook its head so hard you could hear the plug rattle . And then he'd take off again . But by and by I wore him out and had him in up close . He looked enor- mous , six or seven pounds ...
... pond . Every time it came up out of the water , it shook its head so hard you could hear the plug rattle . And then he'd take off again . But by and by I wore him out and had him in up close . He looked enor- mous , six or seven pounds ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Almond Roca anymore arms ashtray baby barber bass bedroom beer Bill bingo birthday boy bitch Burt cards chair chiffonier cigarette coffee crazy doctor door drank drink driveway Dummy Dummy's Edith Packer everything eyes father fellow in denim fence fingers fish front girl glass goddamn goes going guys hair hand happened hear heard Holly husband ice cube James Packer Jell-O Jerry kids kitchen table knew laughed Laura leaned light listen living room long underwear looked Maxine morning mother moved Moxee Myrna Naches River night nuthouse okay picked pond pulled Raymond Carver says shook his head side smoking sofa someone stared started stood stopped suitcase tell Terri There's things told tonic water took trying turned Vern Williams vodka waited watched whiskey wife window woman