The drinking man tells the young woman to put a record on. They haggle a little over prices and buy a TV and a bed. A young couple stops by to select furniture for their new apartment. The reader gets the feeling that he may be selling all his possessions, looking to start life anew. It tells the story of a drinking man overseeing his yard sale. The Quarterly West version incorporated many of Lish's suggested changes, while the final version was 9% shorter. The story was first published in Quarterly West in Autumn 1978 and later in The Paris Review in Spring 1981. In 1977, Carver submitted a story with this title to Esquire, which Gordon Lish subsequently edited and retitled "I Am Going to Sit Down", but no version ever appeared in Esquire. Considered by many one of American literature's most ambitious short-story collections, it was this collection that turned Raymond Carver into a household name in the publishing industry. 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.
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