![]() The characters have a different rhythm and sensibility as evidenced in their long-winding conversations. Their attitude toward women and women's attitude towards themselves reflect a specific place and time that has not aged this collection well. ![]() These are people who smoke, drink, fish, and hunt. Carver is highly skilled at capturing the voices of America in the center of the country and not on the coasts. They are slices of ordinariness, vignettes of character and dialogue that do not go any where. ![]() I thought that it was Norman Dietz's crusty, monotone narration which made me dispirited when I listened to Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," but as I listened to the stories' sudden drop endings over and over again, I discovered that it was the stories themselves. ![]()
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