This story's narrator corrects his friend's confusion of the words "vassals" and "vessels" and keeps unsuccessfully suggesting they go to a new restaurant, The Library.
This story's narrator corrects his friend's confusion of the words "vassals" and "vessels" and keeps unsuccessfully suggesting they go to a new restaurant, The Library. The difficulty of understanding its title concept rises when one character doesn't call his kids because his wife doesn't want him talking to ex-wife Marjorie, and first emerges when Terri describes how her ex-boyfriend, Ed, beat her by dragging her around the room and later drank rat poison. Tess Gallagher recently republished an earlier draft, "Beginners," that more directly depicted cardiologist Mel's depression and added detail to his story of the Gates couple's auto accident, both of which had been edited down by Gordon Lish. For 10 points, name this title story of Raymond Carver's third collection, in which two drunken couples try to discuss affection.
This story's narrator corrects his friend's confusion of the words "vassals" and "vessels" and keeps unsuccessfully suggesting they go to a new restaurant, The Library.
“{What We Talk} About When {We Talk} About {Love}” [accept “{Beginners}” before mentioned]