Ex Libris Why Don"t You Dance?, Viewfrnder, Mr Coffee and Mr Fbrit, Gazebo, I Could See the Smallest Things, Sacks, The Bath, Tell the Women We"re Going, After the Denim, So Much Water So Close to Home, The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off, A Serious Talk, The Calm, Popular Mechanics, Everything Stuck to Him, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, One More Thing This powerful collection of stories, set in the NorthWest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influential pieces of literary fiction.