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Raymond Carver
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first…
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Raymond Carver said it was possible ‘to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork…
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story.
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This anthology presents five previously unpublished stories by Raymond Carver, in addition to five early stories, part of an unfinished novel, and all his non-fiction prose. The works are introduced…
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Carol Sklenicka
Raymond Carver was the most beloved American short-story writer of the late 20th century. Two decades after his death, this comprehensive biography tells the story of Carver’s uncanny ambition, legendary…
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Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver’s writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father’s working life in the saw-mills…
Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1981.
Robert Altman, director of Nashville , The Wedding and The Player , has based his film Short Cuts on nine stories and one poem by Raymond Carver. This book includes…
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Among them is one of his longest, ‘Errand’, in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver’s most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date.
This collection of Raymond Carver’s interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent of…
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Dannye Romine Powell
Dannye Powell’s poems are insightful and smart, and her gift for the perfect metaphor continues to feel effortless and natural. She finds humor in some of the bumps life amply…
The last collection published during Carver’s life, Where I’m Calling From contains 37 of his best stories and reflects his development as a writer over a period of more than…
Mathias Keller
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institute for English/ Amererican Studies), course: Hauptseminar, 21 entries in the bibliography, language…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Raymond Carver’s Errand, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Raymond Carver’s The Cobweb, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Raymond Carver’s Cathedral, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
Sandra Lee Kleppe
Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as…
Kirk Nesset
Raymond Carver, known in some circles as the \u201cgodfather of minimalism,\u201d has been credited by many as the rejuvenator of the once-dying American short story. (See the link on this…
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Translation of: All of us: the collection poems.
AMERICAN NARRATIVE, SHORT STORIES OF COMMON PEOPLE
The original version of What we talk about when we talk about love.
Raymond Carver achieved success thanks to a handful of stories published in the last twelve years of his life. His career was short due to his early death. However, his…
Poems exploring the experiences of the author are accompanied by essays on writing and a selection of short stories.
This book shows how couples that destroy themselves, friends who look insanely for adventure and sons that try to communicate with their parents…an unfair, intense and violent universe.
This collection of poems deals with the universal themes of love, doubt, and fear.
Raymond Carver finished A New Path To The Waterfall shortly before his death in August 1988. These fifty poems–as hard and clear and emotionally pure as his short stories–chart a…
Winner of Poetry Magazine s Levinson Prize, an illuminating collection from the middle of his career, Raymond Carver s poems function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us…
Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption.
This edition brings together, in order of their publication, all the poems of Carver’s four previous books, along with those posthumously published in ‘No heroics, please’ –P. [4] of cover.
Raymond Carver’s complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the recently discovered last stories, found a decade after Carver’s death, are published for the first time. Includes all of Carver’s prose…
A unique collection by an extraordinary writer, this collection of Carver’s best spans his literary career and includes seven new works. Since his untimely death in August of 1988, Raymond…
With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story and instantly became both the recognized master of the form and one of…
This edition brings together in one volume (in their US order of publication), the poems of Fires , When Water Comes Togeher With Other Water , Ultramarine , A New…
G.P. Lainsbury
Arguing that Raymond Carver merits consideration as a major American writer, this text reveals his pivotal role in American minimalist fiction. It contextualizes Carver’s work in terms of the time…
Raymond Carver’s fiction is widely known for its careful documentation of lower-middle-class North America in the 1970s and 80s. Building upon the realist understanding of Carver’s work, this book uses…
Arthur F. Bethea
Emphasizing important techniques and themes, with due consideration of germane theoretical perspectives and biographical materials, this study offers the most comprehensive, sophisticated examination of Raymond Carver’s poetry to date.
Arthur F. Bethea,Arthur F Bethea
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Study Guide for Raymond Carver’s Popular Mechanics, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Susanne Rubenstein
Featuring biographical information, detailed discussion of specific short stories and poems, critical analysis, and innovative activities for teaching literature and writing, Raymond Carver in the Classroom takes you into the…
Korean edition of CALL IF YOU NEED ME: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose by Raymond Carver. Carvers complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered last stories…
Dr. Tim Groenland (University College Dublin, Ireland)
The place of the editor in literary production is an ambiguous and often invisible one, requiring close attention to publishing history and (often inaccessible) archival resources to bring it into…
Michael Hemmingson
CHARLES BUKOWSKI & RAYMOND CARVER Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver were credited as the fathers of the Dirty Realism genre in the 1980s-branching out from minimalism, the stripping of fiction…
Hailed as the American Chekhov by the Times Literary Supplement, Raymond Carver is the most popular and influential American short-story writer since Ernest Hemingway. His works have been adapted to…
A Study Guide for Raymond Carver’s A Small, Good Thing, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Jingqiong Zhou,Jingqiong Zhou
This first book-length study on the black humor in Raymond Carver’s work includes valuable interpretations of Carver’s aesthetics as well as the psycho-social implications of his short fiction. The presence…
Jonathan Pountney
The Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver examines the cultural legacy of one of America’s most renowned short story writers.
