Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver has become a literary icon for our time. When he died in 1988 at the age of fifty, he was acclaimed as the greatest influence on the American short story since Hemingway. Carver's friends were the stuff of legend as well. In this ri...
Reading Raymond Carver
This study of the short stories of Raymond Carver also takes excursions into his poetry and essays. Runyon argues that the stories are intricately linked as part of a cohesive body of work.
Stories of Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver, known in some circles as the "godfather of minimalism," has been credited by many as the rejuvenator of the once-dying American short story. (See the link on this page to a 2008 Kenyon Review story that discusses the rece...
Katedral
Raymond Carvers novellsamling Katedral. Carver föddes i Oregon 1938 med arbetarklassbakgrund. Han började skriva när han jobbade som nattvakt på sjukhus och fick sin första framgång med novellen "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please"...
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (LOA #195)
In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond 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
Carver
The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves around the financial world. Never before had such a large and prestigious organisation been allowed to fail, and to fail so quickly. It began a domino effect, hitting banks and econ...
Dead Boys
A breathtaking debut collection of stories echoing Raymond Carver and Denis Johnson, that illuminates men searching for redemption and love
Simply Raymond
Featuring recipes from Raymond's ITV series - SIMPLY RAYMOND BLANC 'Of the many cookery books that I have written, this one has the most extraordinary story,' says Raymond Blanc. His long-held plan to write a simple cookbook - inspired by his moth...
Simply Raymond
Featuring recipes from Raymond's ITV series - SIMPLY RAYMOND BLANC'Of the many cookery books that I have written, this one has the most extraordinary story,' says Raymond Blanc. His long-held plan to write a simple cookbook - inspired by his mothe...
Kew on a Plate with Raymond Blanc
The best dish on Raymond's menu, according to Raymond, is the 'one that's in season'. In this unique TV series and book, Raymond Blanc and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have created a stunning Kitchen Garden at Kew to showcase the heritage and botany...
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Flash Fiction
A collection of 75 short stories, none longer than 750 words, includes works by Raymond Carver, Richard Brautigan, Margaret Atwood, John Updike, Tim O'Brien, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Life in Medicine
“Excellent” poetry and prose about physicians and their patients, by Raymond Carver, Kay Redfield Jamison, Rachel Naomi Remen, and more (Library Journal). A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essay...
Snowman Pop-Up
One winter's night, a snowman comes to life and a magical adventure begins . . . This special edition includes a magical pop-up scene, with a story based on the beloved picture book by Raymond Briggs. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Raymon...
Short Cuts
Raymond Carvers Short Stories zählen zu den faszinierendsten Werken der amerikanischen Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert. "Short Cuts" enthält jene Geschichten, die Robert Altman seinem berühmten Episodenfil...
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories
With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time. ' Carver's stories] can ... be counted among the masterpieces of American Literature.' --The New York Times Book Review 'One of the great short story writers of our time--of any time.' --The Philadelhpia Inquirer 'The whole collection is a knock out. Few wriers can match Raymond Carver's entiwining style and language.' --The Dallas Morning News
Soul Barnacles
This bittersweet collection of diary entries, memoirs, essays, letters, and poetry celebrates the marriage and literary partnership of the late fiction writer Raymond Carver (1938---1988) and the poet Tess Gallagher. Soul Barnacles is both literar...
Was ich sonst noch verpasst habe
Sie gilt als das bestgehütete Geheimnis der amerikanischen Literatur. Lucia Berlin ist die Wiederentdeckung des Jahres und wird verglichen mit Raymond Carver, Richard Yates oder Grace Paley. Ihre Storys zeugen von einem unsteten Leben voller Brüch...
Där jag ringer ifrån
Raymond Carver sammanställde 1988 en novellsamling med titeln Där jag ringer ifrån. Han utgick ifrån trettio av sina tidigare böckers starkaste noveller och tillfogade sju nyskrivna texter. Kort därefter avled han i lungcancer, endast femtio år ga...
Good Poems for Hard Times
An eclectic anthology of poetic works, selected for their uplifting and honest themes, includes pieces by such writers as Raymond Carver, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost. Collected by the author of Homegrown Democrat. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.
Sitting on the fence: Negotiating archaeology, anthropology and philosophy
This volume celebrates the academic life of prof. Raymond Corbey. It gathers contributions by diverse scholars and professionals from both science and society to engage with a range of key topics Raymond has grappled with at different stages of his capricious career. The volume not only provides an opinionated portrait of Raymond as an academic persona and sometimes controversial scholarly figure, unpacking key tropes of his intellectual journey such as “sitting on the fence” or the “embedded philosopher” and academic “jester”, it also illustrates the wide-ranging and inspirational nature of his work. As a “boundary-worker” seeking to re-negotiate the limits, opportunities and contributions of various disciplines, the volume reflects Raymond’s critical but always provocative engagement with issues such as theory-building, alien civilizations and cosmic evolution, nonhuman sentience, the politics of species, Darwinism, the Maussian gift, human nature, hand axes, the mark of the
Short Cuts
'I look at all of Carver's work as just one story, for his stories are all occurences, all about things that just happen to people and cause their lives to take a turn... In formulating the mosaic of the film Short Cuts, which is based on these ni...
All of Us
Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: "I began as a poet. My first publication was a poem. So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if t...
All of Us: The Collected Poems
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into discreet moments; a voice of conversational intimacy, and an unstinting sympathy. This complete edition brings together all the poems of Carver's five previous books, from Fires to the posthumously published No Heroics, Please. It also contains bibliographical and textual notes on individual poems; a chronology of Carver's life and work; and a moving introduction by Carver's widow, the poet Tess Gallagher.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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 by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and...
Cathedral
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, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'....
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew...
Beginners
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. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the f...
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water
A vast collection of poems which won 'Poetry' magazine's Levinson prize.'Somehow the nuances of daily experience, the warmth, humor, and reflection the poet brings to subjects are quite unlike anyone else's.' - J.Parisi 'Over the years, Raymond Carver has been writing poetry alongside his fiction -- same of his earlier verse appeared in a recent anthology titled Fires -- and the most vigorous poems in this new collection function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge.' -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times'Carver's voice is direct, his themes universal.' -- The Seattle Past-Intelligencer 'The emotional impact of his scenes and slices of life is imparted without strain; the voice speaks: with such an uncanny directness and ease -- and remarkable intimacy -- that the reader may wander at poem's end how such simplicity can carry such power...Somehow the nuances of daily experience, the warmth, humor, and reflection
New Path to the Waterfall
Poems deal with memories, loss of identity, childhood innocence, the past, and mortality.
Where I'm Calling from
Spans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including 'Intimacy' and 'Boxes'
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories
The most celebrated story collection from 'one of the true American masters' (The New York Review of Books)--a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one's way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman. 'Raymond Carver's America is ... clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories.... Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own, like no other except that very world, as Wordsworth said, which is the world to all of us.' --The New York Times Book Review
Cathedral
'A dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life...Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty...his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart.'--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World 'Cathedral contains astonishing achievements, which bespeaks a writer expanding his range of intentions.'--The Boston Globe 'A few of Mr. Carver's stories can already be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction...Cathedral shows a gifted writer struggling for a larger scope of reference, a finer touch of nuance.' --Irving Howe, front page, The New York Times Book Review 'Clear, hard language so right that we shiver at the knowledge we gain from it.' --Thomas Williams, Chicago Tribune Book World 'Carver is more than a realist; there is, in some of his stories, a strangeness, the husk of a myth.' --Los Angeles Times Stories included: 'Feathers' 'Chef's House'
Short Cuts: Selected Stories
From 'one of the great short story writers of our time' (The Philadelphia Inquirer)--nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss--and formed the basis for the film 'Short Cuts' directed by Robert Altman. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of 'one of the true contemporary masters' (The New York Review of Books). Features stories from the collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Where I'm Calling From, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and A New Path to the Waterfall; including an introduction by Robert Altman.