What We Talk About When We Talk About Love SC Raymond Carver 1989 Birdman Movie

Description: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories Paperback by Raymond Carver (Author) In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature�a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one�s way through the dark. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is not only the most well-known short story title of the latter part of the 20th century; it has come to stand for an entire aesthetic, the bare-bones prose style for which Raymond Carver became famous. Perhaps, it could be argued, too famous, at least for his fiction's own good. Like those of Hemingway or any other writer similarly loved, imitated, parodied, and reviled, these stories can sometimes produce the sense of reading pastiche. "A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house." "That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window." "My friend Mel McGinnis was talking. Mel is a cardiologist, and sometimes that gives him the right." What other writer ever produced first sentences like these? They are like doors into Carverworld, where everyone speaks in simple declarative phrases, no one ever stops at one beer, and failure or violence are the true outcomes of the American dream. Yet these stories bear careful re-reading, like any truly important and enduring work. For one thing, Carver is one of the few writers who can make desperation--cutting your ex-wife's telephone cord in the middle of a conversation, standing on your own roof chunking rocks while a man with no hands takes your picture--deeply funny. Then there is the sheer craft that went into their creation. Despite their seeming simplicity, his tales are as artfully constructed as poems--and like poems, the best of them can make your breath catch in your throat. In the title piece, for instance, after the gin has been drunk, after the stories have been told, after the tensions in the room have come to the surface and subsided again, there comes a moment of strange lightness and peace: "I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark." Much of what happens in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) happens offstage, and we're left with tragedy's props: booze, instant coffee, furniture from a failed marriage, cigarettes smoked in the middle of the night. This is not merely a matter of technique. Carver leaves out a great deal, but that's only a measure of his characters' vulnerability, the nerve endings his stories lay bare. To say anything more, one feels, would simply hurt too much. Publisher- Vintage Language- English Paperback- 176 pages I read a lot of novels, but I always on the lookout for good collections of short stories. This book might be the single best collection of short stories I have ever read. First off, Raymond Carver is one of the best short story writers there is. He is well known his spare style of writing. And because he takes on real life situations, love, alcoholism, dysfunctional relationships, uncomfortable things that many of us deal with, his spare style captures the type of stories he writes in a powerful way. The title story, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, is a touching and thought provoking story. Two couples, best friends, have a deep discussion about what love is, or isn�t. The one lady is telling how she was in an abusive relationship. It was bad. And her current husband, who she really loves, is saying how horrible her former lover was. But the lady makes an fascinating point, that although it was not a healthy relationship, it was still love. Her husband disagrees. How can an abusive relationship be love? The two couples are charming and you feel like you are sitting down with them, right in the middle of the conversation. And Carver shows you what healthy love is by the wonderful relationship of these two couples, while also showing you how unclear love can be, through the discussion they are having. It�s a masterpiece. The stories are varied. The Calm is a story at a barbershop. The Third Thing That Killed My Father is a twisted story about circumstances that ultimately do someone in. His father, being callus and looking out for his own interests, and how he didn�t anticipate what it would lead to. After The Denim, is a nice older couple who like to play Bingo and Carver does an amazing job showing the sweet little things, the things people get obsessively annoyed about to the point of letting it ruin a nice evening. Then there�s the unsettling story of Tell The Women We�re Going. The Bath is a sad but true to life tale of how two parents deal with a sudden tragedy, and the disbelief and denial and ways people distract themselves to try to deal with it. This collection run the gamut of sweet to creepy to the strange little everyday things that people make important. And Carver is masterful at telling these things in a way that makes you fascinated with the simple things people do, or the way people complicate their own lives with things we all do. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), or simply Birdman, is a 2014 American black comedy-drama film directed by Alejandro Gonz�lez I��rritu. It was written by I��rritu, Nicol�s Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando B�. The film stars Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson, a faded Hollywood actor best known for playing the superhero "Birdman", as he struggles to mount a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". The film also features a supporting cast of Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts. The personal and vocational experiences of the four co-writers were central to writing the script. Dinelaris' exposure to Broadway shaped the depictions of rehearsals and events backstage, though he admitted exaggerating these. He also felt his background writing long scenes of dialogue helped since scenes in the film "were really more like play scenes".I��rritu's own experiences influenced many of Birdman's themes. "What this film talks about, I have been through", I��rritu recalled. "I have seen and experienced all of it; it's what I have been living through the last years of my life." Dinelaris described this aspect as "a laughing look at oneself", but said it had to be done in a comedic way; otherwise, "it would have been the most unbelievably self-absorbed look at the subject". Themes from Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love", which Riggan adapts for stage in the story, also influenced the script. I��rritu wanted to find the connection between the themes in Riggan's story and those of Carver's. Because of this, it was important to the director that Carver's story be the subject of the play depicted within the film. Therefore, I��rritu stated that his desire to use Carver's work was "terrifying" because the rights to using the Carver material were still subject to the possibility of being rejected during development of the film, but no issues arose. Carver's widow, writer Tess Gallagher, loved the script and permitted the adaptation, saying that Carver would be laughing about the film. If you have any questions please be sure to ask BEFORE purchasing! Can't find what you're looking for? Search my titles AND description by clicking here! You'll notice your search bar now says "Search only this store"...quite a powerful tool! Please check my other listings HERE before checking out...combine your order and save on shipping! Please add me to your favorite sellers list as I have new listings on the way! Thanks for viewing! Please note shipping is full price plus $2 for each additional item. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT AND CHECK MY OTHER LISTINGS! If you don't see it- ask! It MAY be in stock! We'll be glad to put a listing up for you! Respond to messages in 24 hours or less! Book is like new. More pictures may be in description (which it is suggested you read!) 978-0679723059

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