What We Talk About When We Talk About Love : Stories Condition:Like New Meursault is different

Meursault is different

At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence

Filled with wonder at the power of the life force and of the capacity of human beings to move through love and loss and healing to love again

which is argued to be a summary of the lost second book of the Poetics

For over forty years psychiatrist Mike Shooter has listened to children and adolescents in crisis

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love : Stories Condition:Like New Meursault is differentAlternate cover edition can be found here In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated and beloved short story writers in American literaturea haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding ones way through the dark.