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Fires by Raymond Carver
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: RC
"Fires" is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir of his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing li ...Show more
On Becoming a Novelist by Raymond Carver (Foreword by); John W. Gardner
Category: Reference
On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both from wi ...Show more
Raymond Carver Collected Stories by CARVER RAYMOND
Category: Fiction
In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercu ...Show more
Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
Category: Fiction
'I look at all of Carver's work as just one story, for his stories are all occurences, all about things that just happen to people and cause their lives to take a turn... In formulating the mosaic of the film Short Cuts, which is based on these nine stories and a poem, 'Lemonade', I've tried to do the s ...Show more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Category: Fiction
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-west 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 ...Show more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Category: Fiction | Series: RC
"This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West 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 ...Show more
Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompass ...Show more
Where I'm Calling from: selected stories by Raymond Carver
Category: Fiction
Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own choice of his short stories, revised the texts and published them in this authoritative edition. The stories in Where I'm Calling From are selected from the full range of the author's work, including Furious Seasons, Will You Pl ...Show more
Will You Be Quiet Please? by CARVER RAYMOND
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time. " Carver's stories] can ... be counted among the masterpieces of Americ ...Show more