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All of Us : The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
Category: Gift | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny a ...Show more
CALL IF YOU NEED ME - The Uncollected Fi by CARVER RAYMOND
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death and published here in book form for the first time. Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, fou ...Show more
Cathedral by Carver Raymond
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver's work and "overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery ...Show more
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Category: Fiction | Series: RC
"Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title ...Show more
Elephant by Raymond Carver
Category: Fiction | Series: RC
These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, "Errand", in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the ye ...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 | 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
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
Category: Fiction | Series: RC
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, p ...Show more
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