What we talk about when we talk about love : stories / by Raymond Carver

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1981.

Why don't you dance? -- Viewfinder -- Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit -- Gazebo -- I could see the smallest things -- Sacks -- The bath -- Tell the women we're going -- After the denim -- So much water so close to home -- The third thing that killed my father off -- A serious talk -- The calm -- Popular mechanics -- Everything stuck to him -- What we talk about when we talk about love -- One more thing.

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.