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| 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 |
Raymond Carver
Hardcover | Pages: 1017 pages Rating: 4.59 | 1753 Users | 118 Reviews
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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
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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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Ratings: 4.59 From 1753 Users | 118 ReviewsWrite-Up Based On Books Collected Stories
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 eachI've been rediscovering Raymond Carver. Turns out he wasn't a minimalist after all. Even though that's what he's famous for.His editor, Gordon Lish, was the minimalist, slashing many of Carver's stories by half. Others by even more. This was especially true in the case of the groundbreaking collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.Now, in a new volume called Raymond Carver: Collected Stories, we get to see the writer's original drafts along with the cut-down versions of those
It's a bit hard to review this since it's really all unconnected stories but I really liked some and didn't care for others. I might check out more Raymond Carver in the future but I'm not sure yet.
A gathering of story from one author is both wonderful, and maddening. As the definitive Carver, this is a great book and a deep well of information. I especially enjoyed learning about Carver's relationship with his editor Lish.As arrogant as this will undoubtedly sound, I think Carver was at his best when Lish cut him short.My two favorite stories? I'd say "Pastoral" and "Sixty Acres" are, in my humble opinion, Carver's greatest works. There were a handful of standouts I also enjoyed, but
ENGLISH (Collected Stories) / ITALIANOI am sitting over coffee and cigarettes at my friend Rita's and I am telling her about it.Here is what I tell herAfter I discovered it, I whished really hard for this edition of all the Carver's novels. In the end I bought it, despite the hight price. In addition to not regret a single euro of the money spent for this book, I don't feel like I have to say or comment something about it. But, being a selfless person, I think that each of you have to spend the
All short stories written by Carver are mesmerizing in a dark way. The stillness of his characters, obscure endings leaving rooms for multiple interpretation, gossips. I normally read each story before bed and that is the perfect timing. The good thing about it is that there are no expectations build throughout each story, it can end anytime without the end of satisfying closure. The beauty is in confusion of his plots, mandane and disappointed/disappointing characters, and leaves you nothing to
Wish I could fall in with the literati and gush over The Annointed One, but reading Carver (especially the G. Lish-pared, early drivel) is a lot like eating a bowl of Grape Nuts: you do it because you think you should, not because you necessarily enjoy it. Surely I can't be the only one out there afraid to admit to this. My heretical call: Carver's over-rated by half.
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