![]() ![]() It is about men and women struggling with work and poverty, adultery and domestic violence, divorce and alcoholism. In content, it tells stories of working-class and lower-middle-class white American life, usually in the west or northwest. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond CarverĪ character in this iconic collection’s final story thinks of her daughter’s truancy as “another tragedy in a long line of low-rent tragedies.” “Low-rent tragedies” could be the subtitle of this 1981 book, which perhaps more than any other made its author’s name as a figurehead of minimalist fiction. ![]()
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