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 |
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Page 72
... fellow do it again . James was amazed . He could not concentrate on his own cards . He kept looking up to see what the fellow in denim was doing . " James , look at your cards , " Edith said . " You missed N - 34 . Pay attention . " " That ...
... fellow do it again . James was amazed . He could not concentrate on his own cards . He kept looking up to see what the fellow in denim was doing . " James , look at your cards , " Edith said . " You missed N - 34 . Pay attention . " " That ...
Page 74
... denim . The fellow was still at it , still playing a card he hadn't paid for . From time to time , James checked how ... denim began shrieking : " Bingo ! Bingo ! Bingo ! I have a bingo ! " The fellow clapped and shouted with her ...
... denim . The fellow was still at it , still playing a card he hadn't paid for . From time to time , James checked how ... denim began shrieking : " Bingo ! Bingo ! Bingo ! I have a bingo ! " The fellow clapped and shouted with her ...
Page 75
... fellow in denim hugged the girl when the woman from the stage handed over the cash . " They'll use it to buy drugs , " James said . THEY stayed for the rest of the games . They stayed until the last game was played . It was a game ...
... fellow in denim hugged the girl when the woman from the stage handed over the cash . " They'll use it to buy drugs , " James said . THEY stayed for the rest of the games . They stayed until the last game was played . It was a game ...
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