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 inAll of Usare marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into discreet moments; a voice of conversational intimacy, and an unstinting sympathy. This complete edition brings together all the poems of Carver s five previous books, fromFiresto the posthumously publishedNo Heroics, Please.It also...
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-h...
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, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver s mature writing and give his devoted readers a final glimpse of the great writer at work. The pure pleasure of Carver s writing is everywhere in his work, here no less than...
Raymond Carver s complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered last stories, found a decade after Carver s d...
Winner of Poetry Magazine's Levinson Prize, an illuminating collection from the middle of his career, Raymond Carver's poems "function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
Winner of Poetry Magazine's Levinson Prize, an illuminating collection from the middle of his career, Raymond Carver's poems "function as di...
One of Raymond Carver s final collections of poetry, moving from the beauty of the natural world to thoughts of mortality and family and art. Throughout, Carver has the astonished, chastened voice of a person who has survived a wreck, as surprised that he had a life before it as that he has one afterward, willing to remember both sides (The New York Times Book Review)."
One of Raymond Carver s final collections of poetry, moving from the beauty of the natural world to thoughts of mortality and family and art. Througho...
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, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form. Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver's life work and show us why he was so...
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 wri...
More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories--later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love--are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver's literary development.
More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stor...
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 and possibility of life. . . . Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty. . . . his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World).
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Raymond Carver s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning...
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 American Literature.- --The New York Times Book Review -One of the great short story writers of our time--of any time.- --The Philadelhpia Inquirer -The whole collection is a knock out. Few wriers can match Raymond Carver's entiwining style and language.- --The Dallas...
With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy t...
The nine stories and one poem collected in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film Short Cuts directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. From the collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Where I m Calling From, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and A New Path to the Waterfall; including an introduction by Robert Altman. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of one of the true contemporary masters...
The nine stories and one poem collected in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film Short Cuts directed by Robert Altman. C...
