Best Raymond Carver Stories - April 2024

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories

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

Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

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

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 

• ASIN: 0679735690
• ASIN: 0679735690
• ISBN: 9780679735694
• 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

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

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

American Short Story Masterpieces (Dover Thrift Editions)

As variegated as the American experience itself, this original treasury reflects the vibrant role of the short story in our national literature. Fourteen outstanding tales by famous American authors unfold in settings ranging from the decaying family mansion of Edgar Allan Poe's dark psychological thriller, "The Fall of the House of Usher," to the bustling modern apartment building of John Cheever's domestic drama, "The Enormous Radio." Moods and attitudes shift from the simmering menace of a lynch mob in William Faulkner's "Dry September" to the gentle optimism of an elderly couple in Ring La... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486499138
• UPC: 800759499137
• ASIN: 0486499138
• ISBN: 0486499138
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

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

On Becoming a Novelist

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

The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood)

For the first time together in one volume, the complete short story collection starring Sookie Stackhouse—with a new introduction from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the series, Charlaine Harris. For the first time together in one volume, here is the complete short story collection starring Louisiana’s favorite telepathic waitress, Sookie Stackhouse—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris. New fans can fill in the gaps in their Sookie lore while old friends can revisit some of their favorite moments and characters. From investigating the murder of a local ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399587594
• ASIN: 0399587594
• ISBN: 0399587594
• Brand: Ace
• Manufacturer: Ace

The Heaven of Animals: Stories

Named one of Amazon’s Best Short Story Collections of 2014 One of Atlanta Journal Constitution’s 9 Best Books of 2014 Best Short Story Collection of the Year, Tweed's Magazine Winner of GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction 2014 LA Times Book Prize Finalist Winner of the Florida Book Awards Silver Medal for Fiction Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction “A debut collection of unsparing yet warmly empathetic stories…akin to both Anton Chekhov and Raymond Carver in humane spirit and technical mastery” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).The Heaven of Animals, award-w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476729972
• ASIN: 1476729972
• ISBN: 1476729972
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Love Is No Small Thing: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction)

Meghan Kenny’s debut collection, Love Is No Small Thing, gives readers an assembly of keenly drawn characters each navigating the world looking for an understanding of love in its many forms and complexities―be it romantic, parental, elusive, or eternal. A father may teach his teenage son “Hearts break easy,” but as Kenny’s characters discover, knowing an important truth about love is no substitute for experiencing it.In the title story, a woman learns of her boyfriend’s infidelity on Halloween night and contemplates lost years, concealments, and the difficulty of walking away. An ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 080716626X
• ASIN: 080716626X
• ISBN: 080716626X
• Manufacturer: LSU Press

Factotum

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0876852630
• ASIN: 0876852630
• ISBN: 9780876852637
• Brand: Brand: Ecco
• Manufacturer: Ecco

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

Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (LOA #195) : Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Cathedral / stories from Where I'm Calling From / Beginners / other stories

Carver transformed the American short story in the 1970s and 80s with spare, intense, often disturbing dramas. Gathering for the first time all Carver's stories, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of Carver's

• UPC: 10988083
• Rating: 3.667

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

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

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: 4.095

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

Where I'm Calling From - eBook

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

• UPC: 311649591
• Rating: 4.091

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? - eBook

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

• UPC: 869256500
• Rating: 4.333

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

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