Beginners (short story collection)

Beginners

First edition cover
Editors	William L. Stull Maureen P. Carroll
Author	Raymond Carver
Original title	Beginners: the original version of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Language	English
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Jonathan Cape
Publication date	2009
Publication place	England
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	212
ISBN	9780224089296
OCLC	799539673

Beginners is the title given to the manuscript version of Raymond Carver's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, published with the permission of Carver's widow Tess Gallagher in 2009.

The Stories

• "Why Don't You Dance?"
• "Viewfinder"
• "Where is Everyone?"
• "Gazebo"
• "Want to See Something?"
• "The Fling"
• "A Small, Good Thing"
• "Tell the Women We're Going"
• "If It Please You"
• "So Much Water So Close to Home"
• "Dummy"
• "Pie"
• "The Calm"
• "Mine"
• "Distance"
• "Beginners"
• "One More Thing"

Publications

• Carver, Raymond. Beginners. London: Chatto Bodley Head & Cape (2009)
• Carver, Raymond. Collected Stories. New York: Library of America (2009).
• Carver, Raymond. Beginners. New York: Vintage Contemporaries (2015)