What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous short story collection and remains one of the most influential works of modern literature to this day. However, the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners – published here for the first time, was almost fifty percent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reveals what had previously gone unspoken and fills the narrative silences that have inspired and puzzled readers for so long. Beginners offers a fascinating insight into the aesthetics of a literary giant and could spark one of the great cultural debates of our time with the questions it raises.