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Elephant and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

CARVER, RAYMOND

Contemporary

Collins, Harvill

A New Path to the Waterfall

GALLAGHER, Tess

Poetry

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

A collection of essays, poems and stories.

Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

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No Heroics Please: Writings 1958-88

The Harvill Press

In a Marine Light - Selected Poems

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.

Will you please be quiet, please?: The stories of Raymond Carver

Short Stories & Anthologies

New York: McGraw Hill, 1976

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 story of Cathedral in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see. Many view this story, and indeed this collection, as a watershed in the maturing of Carver's work to a more confidently poetic style.

Cathedral

Vintage

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 year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed 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, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

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Elephant and Other Stories

A New Path to the Waterfall

Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

No Heroics Please: Writings 1958-88

In a Marine Light - Selected Poems

Elephant and Other Stories

Will you please be quiet, please?: The stories of Raymond Carver

Cathedral

Elephant and Other Stories

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?