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A review by andriawrites
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Raymond Carver
4.0
Carver's honest and harrowing minimalist short stories were both draining and moving (in good, messed-up kind of way.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love includes 17 short stories, each one more different and more alike than the next. Carver weaves tales of desperation, love, loneliness, and disappointment, turning them into cold meditations on what love and relationships mean in a post-modern America. Like most short story collections, this one reads pretty quickly, but that does not, in any way, undermine the content of the stories. Each one felt like a voyeuristic glimpse into the broken or almost broken lives of people who you may actually know, now or someday. All in all, a great exploration of human nature, in all its faults and triumphs.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love includes 17 short stories, each one more different and more alike than the next. Carver weaves tales of desperation, love, loneliness, and disappointment, turning them into cold meditations on what love and relationships mean in a post-modern America. Like most short story collections, this one reads pretty quickly, but that does not, in any way, undermine the content of the stories. Each one felt like a voyeuristic glimpse into the broken or almost broken lives of people who you may actually know, now or someday. All in all, a great exploration of human nature, in all its faults and triumphs.