This powerful collection of stories, set in the Northwest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection went on to become one of the most influential pieces of literary...(展开全部)

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

A beautiful fable about the nature of love, from beloved, award-winning picture book creators Mac Barnett and Carson Ellis. "What is love?" a young boy asks. "I can't answer that," his grandmother says, and so the boy goes out into the world to find out. But while each person he meets—the fisherman, the actor, and others—has an answer to his question, not one seems quite right....(展开全部)

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, "Beginners" - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reve...(展开全部)

Here is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver’s seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About . . ., which portray the gritty loves and lives of the American working class,...(展开全部)

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, "Beginners" - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reve...(展开全部)

「『愛』是什麼？」 每天，世界上都有無數人，對這問題感到好奇，並且，百思不得其解。 侯佩岑（Patty）也一樣。她有好多好多和「愛」有關的問題，想問問身邊的朋友，也有好多想法和感觸，想和人分享。 「LOVE」這本書，就是Patty獻給她的朋友們，一份情人禮物。 Patty在書裡，寫下了她對愛情的看法，和戀愛中的心情點滴。為了尋求對「愛」的解答，她訪問了一些人，從他們的回答中，彷彿觸動也啟發了Patty更多對愛情的想像與期待。Patty最重要的人──媽媽，也將在本書暢談Patty小時不為人知的趣事和糗事，以及母女倆一路相互扶持的心路點滴。 平常就喜歡看電影的Patty，在本書裡首度一嚐「編劇」宿願，親自撰寫腳本和對白，並挑大樑演出紙上電影「In Love」。喜悅、眷戀、牽掛……她只想告訴你：「戀愛中的我，是這樣子的。」 想知道Patty小時候長什麼模樣...(展开全部)

Number one bestselling science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the “only happiness that lasts”—love—in a book that “is interesting on nearly every page” (David Brooks, The New York Times Book Review). Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and...(展开全部)

「『愛』是什麼？」 每天，世界上都有無數人，對這問題感到好奇，並且，百思不得其解。 侯佩岑（Patty）也一樣。她有好多好多和「愛」有關的問題，想問問身邊的朋友，也有好多想法和感觸，想和人分享。 「LOVE」這本書，就是Patty獻給她的朋友們，一份情人禮物。 Patty在書裡，寫下了她對愛情的看法，和戀愛中的心情點滴。為了尋求對「愛」的解答，她訪問了一些人，從他們的回答中，彷彿觸動也啟發了Patty更多對愛情的想像與期待。Patty最重要的人──媽媽，也將在本書暢談Patty小時不為人知的趣事和糗事，以及母女倆一路相互扶持的心路點滴。 平常就喜歡看電影的Patty，在本書裡首度一嚐「編劇」宿願，親自撰寫腳本和對白，並挑大樑演出紙上電影「In Love」。喜悅、眷戀、牽掛……她只想告訴你：「戀愛中的我，是這樣子的。」 想知道Patty小時候長什麼模樣...(展开全部)