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A collection of short stories by Raymond Carver exploring the lives and relationships of ordinary people, beginning with 'Feathers,' a narrative about a couple's dinner visit to coworkers' home. Carver's minimalist prose captures intimate moments and unspoken tensions in everyday life.
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Ordinary people drift past each other's loneliness, occasionally making contact that briefly, almost accidentally, matters.
intimacy
The blind man asked if he could touch her face. She agreed. He touched his fingers to every part of her face, her nose—even her neck. She never forgot it.
CR-RC-134For a long time my wife and I loved each other more than anything in the world. He hated the word bonded. What did it have to do with the two of them?
CR-RC-104belonging
Carlyle had said all he knew to say, so he stopped talking. The old man sat close, both feet on the floor, listening.
CR-RC-118I hold the bridle up to the window and look at it in the light. It's not fancy, just an old dark leather bridle. I don't know much about it.
CR-RC-133self-and-identity
She got to feeling lonely and cut off from people she kept losing in that moving-around life. She couldn't go it another step.
CR-RC-135A wave of happiness comes over me that I'm not him, that I'm me and I'm here.
CR-RC-092Illuminates
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