WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE?

This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the p assing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sens e of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s.