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Product Description
A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #480269 in Books
- Published on: 1999-04-12
- Released on: 1999-04-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
Editorial Reviews
Review
The summation of a triumphant career from "one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time." (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"[Raymond Carver is] one of the true contemporary masters." —The New York Review of Books
"[Carver's stories] can...be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction." —Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review
"[These stories] overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.... Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty, his eye set on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart." —The Washington Post Book World
From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Inside Flap
A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
About the Author
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in August of that year, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Customer Reviews
Absolutly stunning! I couldn't stop reading!
It's like little pebbles that make up the beach. The short storries conbine to give you a feel of his life. Great collection of storries. Some that reflect on me so much that they often remind me of things in my childhood.
Carver's writing cuts through the artiface of literature.
These are raw stories of the human heart in conflict. They will change your life forever.
