Beginners (Raymond Carver)
Encyclopedia
Beginners is the title given to the manuscript version of Raymond Carver
's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
, published by Carver's widow Tess Gallagher
in 2009.
Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s....
's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is the name of a 1981 collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, as well as the title of one of the stories in the collection.-Why Don't You Dance?:...
, published by Carver's widow Tess Gallagher
Tess Gallagher
Tess Gallagher is an American poet, essayist, author and playwright. She attended the University of Washington, where she studied creative writing with Theodore Roethke and later Nelson Bentley as well as David Wagoner and Mark Strand...
in 2009.
The Stories
- Why Don't You Dance?
- Viewfinder
- Where is Everyone?
- Gazebo
- Want to See Something?
- The Fling
- A Small, Good Thing
- Tell the Women We're Going
- If It Please You
- So Much Water So Close to Home
- Dummy
- Pie
- The Calm
- Mine
- Distance
- Beginners
- One More Thing
Publications
- Carver, Raymond. Beginners. London: Chatto Bodley Head & Cape (2009)
- Carver, Raymond. Collected Stories. New York: Library of AmericaLibrary of AmericaThe Library of America is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.- Overview and history :Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LoA has published over 200 volumes by a wide range of authors from Mark Twain to Philip...
(2009).