What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver - 1981

E-69: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf. 1981. 159 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in half cloth boards. Boards have shelf-wear, staining present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is not only the most well-known short story title of the latter part of the 20th century; it has come to stand for an entire aesthetic, the bare-bones prose style for which Raymond Carver became famous. Perhaps, it could be argued, too famous, at least for his fiction's own good. Like those of Hemingway or any other writer similarly loved, imitated, parodied, and reviled, these stories can sometimes produce the sense of reading pastiche. E-69; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .