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Beginners by Raymond Carver
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: RC
Tim O'Brien once said of Raymond Carver, 'He uses the English language like a whittler's knife, carving stark and unadorned prose-objects, paring away everything but the very core of human emotion'. "Beginners" is Carver's most famous collection of short stories - "What We Talk About When We Talk About ...Show more
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: RC
"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'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title ...Show more
Elephant by Raymond Carver
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: RC
These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. 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. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the ye ...Show more
Fires by Raymond Carver
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: RC
"Fires" is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir of his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing li ...Show more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: RC
"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 razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the ...Show more
Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompass ...Show more
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: RC
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 with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, p ...Show more
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