Elephant and Other Stories - Hardcover

Carver, Raymond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002719126 ISBN 13: 9780002719124

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 1988

Synopsis

A collection of seven minimalist short stories from the author of ALL OF US, CATHEDRAL and WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE.

About this title

Review:

'Elephant is superb and suggests how much he still had to give' Ian McEwan

About the Author:

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to come second to earning a living for his young family. Despite, small-press publication, it was not until Will You Please Be Quiet Please? appeared in 1976 that his work began to reach a wider audience. This was the year in which he gave up alcohol, which had contributed to the collapse of his marriage. In 1977 he met the writer Tess Gallagher, with whom he shared the last eleven years of his life. During this prolific period he wrote three collections of stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral and Elephant. Fires, a collection of essays, poems and stories, appeared in 1985, followed by three further collections of poetry. In 1988 he completed the poetry collection A New Path to the Waterfall.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0002719126
• ISBN 13: 9780002719124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128