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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories

36 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 1989

Wonderful Carver
Carver's texts are pure American, and in their purity his characters and stories become a universal experience. His language, strong, concise and to the point is charged with emotion. He uses only the necessary words to describe and each word is there for a purpose. This is my second book by Carver. I started with Fires and I'm anxiouslly awaiting the arrival of recently purchased Cathedrals.

Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

1 review
James Thurber, Edith Wharton, ...

Symphony Space, 2006

Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts series)
So much fun! Great for a few minutes or hours.

All of Us: The Collected Poems

15 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 1996

Minimal is a Good Thing
Those who have stated that Carver was a minimalist seem to feel minimalism is a negative. Minimalism is a form of expression, but it reflects merely the form, not the content. These are not minimal poems. The impact comes from straight language in simple grammatical structure. It is amazing how Carver is able to convey intense emotions with such a few number of words. He is a master. After I read ...

Cathedral

37 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 1989

A hope-filled turn for a great American writer
I read some of the stories in Cathedral during my undergraduate years, and upon my recent re-reading of the entire short story collection, I realize now how little I understood Raymond Carver's work back then. I have since read nearly all of Carver's stories, which, collectively, have come to represent a revival of the short story during the 1980s. Arguably, the short story has since fallen ...

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories

15 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 1992

Very good
The book was in very good condition, with no missing pages or any markings that I could see.

Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

60 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 1989

"Who knows why we do what we do?"
It's awfully hard to live up to praise - especially when said acknowledgments include "one of the great short story writers of our time - of any time" and comparisons to the great Hemingway himself (considered by many to be the all-time master of the form). Happily, Raymond Carver's estimable work stands up to the plaudits. "Where I'm calling from" is a collection of Carver's work from four ...

Short Cuts: Selected Stories

13 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 1993

Great introduction to a great writer...
In my opinion, Raymond Carver is among the top five short story writers of the twentieth century. His stories are bold, contemporary, and never boring. This compilation - used to make the Altman film - is a superb sampling of his work. Some of his best stories are here, such as "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?," "So Much Water So Close to Home," and the heartbreaking, "A Small, Good Thing." ...

On Becoming a Novelist

27 reviews
John Gardner, Raymond Carver

W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

Every writer should read this book
I first read Gardner's "The Art of Fiction" some years ago. It was a fine book with some sound advice. However, it read too much like a how-to book for my tastes. And the how-to advice seemed a bit too formulaic. Though I am sure it is a fine book for instruction, especially for people who are just starting to look at fiction seriously. "On Becoming a Novelist" is a different book all ...

Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose

5 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 2001

Carver for friends
Try to rate a Carver short stories collection is like trying to rate your father actions. You just can't judge him, you only can stare at him. You can even try to understand him, but you don't really have to. There is something beautiful and small hidden in every adjective, every description, every end of a story. Raymond Carver's love for human actions is everywhere in his writing. He puts big ...

American Short Story Masterpieces

3 reviews

Dell, 1989

Best Bang for the Buck
Perhaps I am biased by nostalgia since this was the text used way back in my high school creative writing class, but this sublime anthology is pound for pound the best collection of short fiction around. There are other excellent collections -- Scribner's Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction comes to mind -- but ASS masterpieces (as we called it back then) has a splendid mix of short story ...

The Best American Short Stories 1986 (Best American Short Stories)

Houghton Mifflin, 1986

Short Stories by Ann Beattie, Ethan Canin, Joy Williams, Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Alice Munro, Thomas McGuane, Lord Tweedsmuir, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, and many others.

Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

6 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 1989

The "fires" in his life! - Greatest influences
When Raymond Carver died in 1988 at 50, the literary world lost a truly unique short story writer. Carver, a master at dialogue and often called a minimalist, created stories with substance where a mystery looms beyond the surface, stories so commonplace, with common people doing common things. It's true, the stories are laced with people who endure alcoholic sadness, financial burdens, ...

A New Path to the Waterfall

7 reviews
Raymond Carver

Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994

The last poems . . .
This was Raymond Carver's 11th and apparently last book of poems, published after his death by his wife Tess Gallagher, who writes a long, thoughtful introduction describing Carver's last months before dying of cancer at age 50. Unlike his previous collection, "Where Water Comes Together With Other Water," this book has a number of poems that are more dream-like and surreal, the references not ...

Where I'm Calling From

2 reviews
Raymond Carver

Random House Audio, 1989

Absolutly stunning! I couldn't stop reading!
It's like little pebbles that make up the beach. The short storries conbine to give you a feel of his life. Great collection of storries. Some that reflect on me so much that they often remind me of things in my childhood.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 2003

Elephant and Other Stories

2 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 2003

Very Good Carver Collection
If you haven't read Raymond Carver before, this is probably the wrong book with which you should start. His stories "Cathedral", "Nobody Said Anything", and "Where I'm Calling From" (to name just a few of my favorites) represent his best work; the stories contained in "Elephant" do not. Although "Intimacy" and "Blackbird Pie" are two very strong stories in "Elephant", I would reach back further ...

Ultramarine: Poems

4 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 1987

A wonderfull book of the Sea and its mysteries
I'm very surprized that no one has reviewed this book! I thought that it was fabulous! I love the way that the plot was on the sea, and its mysteries! I was totally caught up in the book! I read this book straight through, whithout talking to anyone. I hope that there are more books like this out there, and I hope that you will be the next to buy, read, and review this book!

Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver

2 reviews
Raymond Carver

Arcade Publishing, 1994

This book is very moving
Carver was a wonderful, wonderful writer. It's great to see his house, his study, his wife and friends photographed so beautifully. It's great to read his stories, his poems, more than 10 years after his death and to find them as powerful as ever. This book is very moving.

Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems

6 reviews
Raymond Carver

Vintage, 1986

Moving, Flowing
This is fine poetry to start Raymond Carver with. "The Ashtray" demonstrates an excellent portrayal of a selfish man and his girlfriend. "My Daughter's Apple Pie" is probably one of Carver's best works as far as showing his understatement style especially with a serious subject (which, actually, is very common with Carver). The book contains everything: nature, death, love, father/son ...

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