[Rarebooks] FS: Raymond Carver with a Canadian Literature Association

[Charles Agvent]

CARVER, Raymond. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. New York: 
Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. First Printing of Carver's second 
major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further 
printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 
2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. This copy with an interesting 
provenance with the SIGNATURE of Canadian critic and short story writer 
John Metcalf dated Nov. 1982 on the front endpaper and the SIGNATURE of 
novelist Leon Rooke on the following blank. About Fine in a Fine 
dustwrapper.

John Metcalf is a long-time critic of Canadian cultural and educational 
inadequacies and published KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS in 1982 to 
showcase this frustration. Leon Rooke, a Canadian novelist born in North 
Carolina, has written many books including LAST ONE HOME SLEEPS IN THE 
YELLOW BED. (#017116)        $175

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