Raymond Carver
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| Original Title: | Raymond Carver: Collected Stories |
| ISBN: | 1598530461 (ISBN13: 9781598530469) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.loa.org/books/307-collected-stories |
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Raymond Carver’s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ’80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 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 undercurrents. Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful for what is left unsaid, Carver’s stories were held up as exemplars of a new school in American fiction known as minimalism or “dirty realism,” a movement whose wide influence continues to this day. Carver’s stories were brilliant in their detachment and use of the oblique, ambiguous gesture, yet there were signs of a different sort of sensibility at work. In books such as Cathedral and the later tales included in the collected stories volume Where I’m Calling From, Carver revealed himself to be a more expansive writer than in the earlier published books, displaying Chekhovian sympathies toward his characters and relying less on elliptical effects. In gathering all of Carver’s stories, including early sketches and posthumously discovered works, The Library of America’s Collected Stories provides a comprehensive overview of Carver’s career as we have come to know it: the promise of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and the breakthrough of What We Talk About, on through the departures taken in Cathedral and the pathos of the late stories. But it also prompts a fresh consideration of Carver by presenting Beginners, an edition of the manuscript of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love that Carver submitted to Gordon Lish, his editor and a crucial influence on his development. Lish’s editing was so extensive that at one point Carver wrote him an anguished letter asking him not to publish the book; now, for the first time, readers can read both the manuscript and published versions of the collection that established Carver as a major American writer. Offering a fascinating window into the complex, fraught relationship between writer and editor, Beginners expands our sense of Carver and is essential reading for anyone who cares about his achievement. Contents-- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Why Don’t You Dance? Viewfinder Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit Gazebo I Could See the Smallest Things Sacks The Bath Tell the Women We’re Going After the Denim So Much Water So Close to Home The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off A Serious Talk The Calm Popular Mechanics Everything Stuck to Him What We Talk About When We Talk About Love One More Thing Stories from Fires The Lie The Cabin Harry’s Death The Pheasant Cathedral Feathers Chef’s House Preservation The Compartment A Small, Good Thing Vitamins Careful Where I’m Calling From The Train Fever The Bridle Cathedral From Where I’m Calling From Boxes Whoever Was Using This Bed Intimacy Menudo Elephant Blackbird Pie Errand Other Fiction The Hair The Aficionados Poseidon and Company Bright Red Apples From The Augustine Notebooks Kindling What Would You Like to See? Dreams Vandals Call If You Need Me Selected Essays My Father’s Life On Writing Fires Author’s Note to Where I’m Calling From Beginners (The Manuscript Version of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love) Why Don’t You Dance? Viewfinder Where Is Everyone? Gazebo Want to See Something? The Fling A Small, Good Thing Tell the Women We’re Going If It Please You So Much Water So Close to Home Dummy Pie The Calm Mine Distance Beginners One More Thing --loa.orgPresent About Books Collected Stories
| Title | : | Collected Stories |
| Author | : | Raymond Carver |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1017 pages |
| Published | : | 2009 by Library of America (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Literature. Classics. American |
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Collected Stories is a monumental overview of Raymond Carver's short fiction; the stories taken together with the appendices and textual comparisons between multiple versions of certain stories provides the reader with quite a lot to contemplate concerning Carver and his life's work. There is even a creeping villain occupying the pages of this anthology in Carver's editor Gordon Lish. The two met in California while they were both working as textbook editors. Lish became the fiction editor atI will have to praise this author for his descriptive abilities. In fact, he is excellent at describing. The trouble is that description is just about all we get. Most of these stories I have trouble even calling stories. They are more like vignettes, vignettes of ordinary everyday people doing ordinary everyday things and then they end without anything of much significance happening. I am left with these questions. So what? Where is the plot? What is the point? Where is the story? But then in a
I'm a fan of horror stories. I'm also a fan of literary short fiction though I must admit to rarely being able to figure out what I'm supposed to glean from most stories of this kind. I reckon it's like someone who enjoys crossword puzzles or word games, the joy of decoding the secret meaning. About two years ago, I came across Ray Carver, his name meaning nothing to me up to that point. The more I read about him, the more intrigued I became. Here was a guy that was considered literary, but
I have some 30-40 pieces of short fiction under my belt, most of them published. That this is so may be testimony more to the desperation of litmus and zines than to my prowess in writing such stories. But I promise - after slogging through edits on three novels I have in draft mode - to return to the shorter version of fiction. This isnt to make excuses. To the contrary, I can feel the impulse building with every chapter page I turn in these wannabe novels. But this time, Ill have the benefit
I have been trying to finish this volume of short stories for more than a year, in a period in which I have read more than one hundred classic novels. The guilt factor is even worse because my husband loves Carver and this is just his style. Me on the other hand? I am terrible at reading short stories, because I find the hardest part of reading is beginnings. Want me to go for a thousand pages? No problem. Want me to start over fifty times in that span, with new settings and characters each
Intense, disconcerting and unsettling. Brief with abrupt endings, these short stories are about ordinary lives of ordinary people. A moment of their lives is captured like a series of shots taken by a camera. They may seem mundane and insignificant to you, but are momentous and meaningful for the characters. These stories not only make you reflect on their significance, but also make you wonder if you interpreted them rightly as the author has intended you to. Some things stay unsaid. It is up
I consider myself a self-professed literary (redundant) type of person having (to invoke Twain) "read me" a book or two; however, I only recently--by sheer fortunate happenstance (thanks to my wife)--stumbled upon this Collected Stories of Raymond Carver. In a moment of self-deprecation I must confess to never having heard of him before--having undoubtedly been somewhat morbidly preoccupied with other things during the 1970's-1980's when Carver apparently was making the literary rounds.These
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