Beginners – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Posted by the editors on Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Beginners by Raymond Carver
Beginners (collection of short stories) (2009) by Raymond Carver Beginners is the manuscript edition of the masterful short story writer Raymond Carver’s collection of stories What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, originally published in 1981. Published by Carver’s wife and widow, Tess Gallagher, in 2009 (Carver himself died in 1988 at the age of 50), Beginners contains the original versions of the stories in WWTAWWTAL, prior to the rather drastic editing by Gordon Lish, Carver’s editor at Knopf. The stories in Beginners, wonderful and sad, often lost in questions of love, family and life, and most always steeped in abundant alcohol, could be considered Dirty Realism, much as the work of John Fante (see our post on The Bandini Quartet), though much of Fante’s work predates the “movement” per se. (PR)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
large images: Vintage Books, Knopf/Wikipedia
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