Collected Stories - Raymond Carvers 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, Carvers 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. Carvers 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 Im 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 Carvers stories, including early sketches and posthumously discovered works, The Library of Americas Collected Stories provides a comprehensive overview of Carvers 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. Lishs 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 Dont You Dance? Viewfinder Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit Gazebo I Could See the Smallest Things Sacks The Bath Tell the Women Were 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 Harrys Death The Pheasant Cathedral Feathers Chefs House Preservation The Compartment A Small, Good Thing Vitamins Careful Where Im Calling From The Train Fever The Bridle Cathedral From Where Im 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 Fathers Life On Writing Fires Authors Note to Where Im Calling From Beginners (The Manuscript Version of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love) Why Dont You Dance? Viewfinder Where Is Everyone? Gazebo Want to See Something? The Fling A Small, Good Thing Tell the Women Were Going If It Please You So Much Water So Close to Home Dummy Pie The Calm Mine Distance Beginners One More Thing --loa.org


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 ⚡️Book Title : Collected Stories
⚡Book Author : Raymond Carver
⚡Page : 1017 pages
⚡Published 2009 by Library of America (first published 1985)

Collected Stories

Raymond Carvers 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, Carvers 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. Carvers 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 Im 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 Carvers stories, including early sketches and posthumously discovered works, The Library of Americas Collected Stories provides a comprehensive overview of Carvers 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. Lishs 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 Dont You Dance? Viewfinder Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit Gazebo I Could See the Smallest Things Sacks The Bath Tell the Women Were 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 Harrys Death The Pheasant Cathedral Feathers Chefs House Preservation The Compartment A Small, Good Thing Vitamins Careful Where Im Calling From The Train Fever The Bridle Cathedral From Where Im 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 Fathers Life On Writing Fires Authors Note to Where Im Calling From Beginners (The Manuscript Version of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love) Why Dont You Dance? Viewfinder Where Is Everyone? Gazebo Want to See Something? The Fling A Small, Good Thing Tell the Women Were Going If It Please You So Much Water So Close to Home Dummy Pie The Calm Mine Distance Beginners One More Thing --loa.org