What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a seminal 1981 short story collection by Raymond Carver that helped define contemporary American minimalist fiction through its spare, emotionally charged portraits of ordinary lives and relationships.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
short story collection
associatedWithEditor Gordon Lish
author Raymond Carver
centralTheme love
marriage
ordinary lives
relationships
containsShortStory A Serious Talk
After the Denim
Gazebo
I Could See the Smallest Things
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit
One More Thing
Sacks
So Much Water So Close to Home
Tell the Women We're Going
The Bath
The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off
Viewfinder
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love self-linksurface differs
surface form: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (short story)

Why Don’t You Dance?
surface form: Why Don't You Dance?
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception acclaimed
depicts alcohol abuse
emotional isolation
working-class characters
describedAs seminal collection
firstEditionFormat hardcover
genre literary fiction
minimalist fiction
short stories
hasInfluenced contemporary American short fiction
minimalist writers
hasISBN 978-0-394-51279-7
hasRevisedVersionsOfStoriesIn Cathedral
literaryMovement Minimalism
surface form: minimalism
mediaType print
notableFor helping define contemporary American minimalist fiction
originalLanguage English
publicationYear 1981
publisher Alfred A. Knopf
setting Old West
surface form: American West
style minimalist
spare prose
subjectOf literary criticism
timePeriodOfStories late 20th century

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Raymond Carver notableWork What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Riggan Thomson playTitle What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Carver notableWork What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
subject surface form: Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love containsShortStory What We Talk About When We Talk About Love self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (short story)
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? containsShortStory What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
this entity surface form: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (early version under another title)
Where I'm Calling From containsWork What We Talk About When We Talk About Love