''Beginners'' is the title given to the manuscript version of

Raymond Carver Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s. Early life Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mi ...

's 1981 short story collection ''

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love ''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'' is a 1981 collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, as well as the title of one of the stories in the collection. Content "Why Don't You Dance?" In 1977, Carver submitted a stor ...

'', published by Carver's widow

Tess Gallagher Tess Gallagher (born 1943) is an American poet, essayist, and short story writer. Among her many honors were a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts award, Maxine Cushing Gray Foundation Award. Biography ...

in 2009.

The Stories

* Why Don't You Dance? * Viewfinder * Where is Everyone? * Gazebo * Want to See Something? * The Fling * A Small, Good Thing * Tell the Women We're Going * If It Please You * So Much Water So Close to Home * Dummy * Pie * The Calm * Mine * Distance * Beginners * One More Thing

Publications

* Carver, Raymond. ''Beginners''. London: Chatto Bodley Head & Cape (2009) * Carver, Raymond. ''Collected Stories''. New York:

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(2009). * Carver, Raymond. ''Beginners''. New York: Vintage Contemporaries (2015) Short story collections by Raymond Carver 2009 short story collections Jonathan Cape books {{2000s-story-collection-stub