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Collected stories / Raymond Carver ; William L. Stull, Maureen P. Carroll, editors.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.A7894 C65 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988.
- Series:
- Library of America ; 195.
- The Library of America ; 195
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 1019 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Library of America, 2009.
- Summary:
- 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 relation between writer and editor, Beginners expands our sense of Carver and is essential reading for anyone who cares about his achievement. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
- Contents:
- Will you please be quiet, please?
- Fat
- Neighbors
- The idea
- They're not your husband
- Are you a doctor?
- The father
- Nobody said anything
- Sixty acres
- What's in Alaska?
- Night school
- Collectors
- What do you do in San Francisco?
- The student's wife
- Put yourself in my shoes
- Jerry and Molly and Sam
- Why, Honey?
- The ducks
- How about this?
- Bicycles, muscles, cigarets [sic]
- What is it?
- Signals
- Will you please be quiet, please?
- from: Furious seasons and other stories
- Pastoral
- Furious seasons
- 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 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
- 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
- Where is everyone?
- Want to see something?
- The fling
- If it please you
- Dummy
- Pie
- Mine
- Distance
- One more thing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781598530469
- 1598530461
- OCLC:
- 311777142
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