FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EBOOK EDITION, MAY 2015

Copyright © 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981 by Tess Gallagher

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in April 1981. Subsequently published in trade paperback by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1989.

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Most of the stories in this work have been previously published in Antaeus , The Iowa Review , The Missouri Review , New England Review , North American Review , The Paris Review , Perspective , Quarterly West , and Tri-Quarterly .

“So Much Water So Close To Home,” “Everything Stuck to Him” (originally “Distance”), and “The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off” (originally “Dummy”) are from Furious Seasons by Raymond Carver, copyright © 1977 by Tess Gallagher. Reprinted by permission of Capra Press, Santa Barbara.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carver, Raymond.
What we talk about when we talk about love.
I. Title.
PS3553.A7894W4 1982
813´.54 81-52447

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eBook ISBN: 978-1-101-97058-4

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