Best Raymond Carver Short Stories - April 2024

American Short Story Masterpieces: A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it’s the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson’s “Shiloh,” or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus’s “The Fat Girl,” the 36 works included her probe issues that ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440204232
• ASIN: 0440204232
• ISBN: 0440204232
• Brand: 2049145481
• Manufacturer: Dell

Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (LOA #195): Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Cathedral / stories ... / other stories (Library of America)

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 ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598530461
• ASIN: 1598530461
• ISBN: 1598530461
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0395843677
• UPC: 046442843676
• ASIN: 0395843677
• ISBN: 0395843677
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

• ASIN: 0679722319
• ASIN: 0679722319
• ISBN: 9780679722311
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Short Cuts: Selected Stories

The nine stories and one poem collected in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. 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. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of “one of the true contemporary masters” (The New York Rev... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679748644
• ASIN: 0679748644
• ISBN: 0679748644
• Manufacturer: Vintage

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories

• ASIN: 0679723056
• ASIN: 0679723056
• ISBN: 0679723056
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Complete Stories (FSG Classics)

Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009LRWWMM
• ASIN: B009LRWWMM
• Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Cathedral

• ASIN: 0679723692
• ASIN: 0679723692
• ISBN: 0679723692
• Manufacturer: Vintage

No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“These delightful stories do that essential-but-rare story thing: they surprise. They skip past the quotidian, the merely real, to the essential, and do so with a spirit of tenderness and wonder that is wholly unique. They are (let me coin a phrase) July-esque, which is to say: infused with wonder at the things of the world.” —George Saunders, author of Tenth of DecemberAward-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743299418
• ASIN: 0743299418
• ISBN: 0739490982
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Homesick for Another World: Stories

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time"I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Pri... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399562907
• ASIN: 0399562907
• ISBN: 0399562907
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges — imaginative, philosophical, and mysterious; as well as short masterpieces by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Thomas Man... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486447162
• UPC: 800759447169
• ASIN: 0486447162
• ISBN: 0486447162
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Best American Short Stories, 1986

Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada

• ASIN: 0395383986
• ASIN: 0395383986
• ISBN: 0395383986
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

On Becoming a Novelist

• ASIN: 0393320030
• ASIN: 0393320030
• ISBN: 0393320030
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Red Light Run: Linked Stories

When two cars collide at an intersection in a leafy Chicago suburb, Hartley Nolan is not the person police expect to find behind the wheel. After all, he barely drinks; everyone knows it’s his wife who’s the alcoholic. But the bigger question on people’s minds is what brought Sonia Senn, dead at the scene, back to her hometown in such a hurry that night?In eleven tightly linked stories, Red Light Run pulls us into the inner lives of Hartley, Sonia, and a host of other characters to untangle the mounting forces that carry them to their fates. Among the ensemble in this prismatic collectio... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501147358
• ASIN: 1501147358
• ISBN: 1501147358
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story

Finalist in AudioFile Magazine's 2007 Audie Awards in the category "Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium"This three-CD compilation features some of the best short stories from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by distinguished stage and screen actors and recorded live at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. More than three hours of recordings in each collection capture the intimacy of live performance, with stories that are alternately exciting, poignant, and funny, making this the perfect accompanimen... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0971921830
• ASIN: 0971921830
• ISBN: 0971921830
• Brand: Brand: Symphony Space
• Manufacturer: Symphony Space

Short Cuts. Raymond Carver

Books : Short Cuts (Paperback)

• UPC: 968675027
• Rating: 4.5

Short Cuts : Selected Stories

Gathers the nine stories that were the basis for the Robert Altman motion

• UPC: 379963
• Rating: 4.5

American Short Story Masterpieces : A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias

• UPC: 446464
• Rating: 5.0

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? : Stories

Man's determination to endure and influence his destiny are the primary themes of twenty-two introspective and poignant

• UPC: 380369
• Rating: 4.333

Where I'm Calling From : Selected Stories

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

• UPC: 380754
• Rating: 4.091

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love : Stories

Stories feature men and women without education, insight, or prospects, who, ironically, are too unimaginative to ever give

• UPC: 380731
• Rating: 4.05

Cathedral

Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and

• UPC: 380719
• Rating: 4.5

Fires : Essays, Poems, Stories

More than 60 stories, poems and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection which clearly illustrates the astounding process of Carver's literary

• UPC: 25669406

Beginners

"The original version of What we talk about when we talk about

• UPC: 44655810
• Rating: 5.0

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Beginners - eBook

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionFrom one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature, the story that launched a thousand homages, in word and film—a haunting meditation on love and companionship, and

• UPC: 229428039
• Rating: 4.05

The Best American Short Stories 2000-Doctorow, Raymond Carver, Walter Mosley

• UPC: 391784398587
• Category: School Textbooks & Study Guides
• Price: 7 USD