Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? - Softcover

Carver, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099530341 ISBN 13: 9780099530343

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2009

Synopsis

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, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.

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Review:

"Carver is the king of short fiction. His writing hits you in the pit of your stomach, and haunts you with its disenchantment. It's almost visceral." (Natasha Lunn Red)

"Carver has made himself the natural successor to his true mentor, Chekhov" (Financial Times)

"He is alert to the unique, inconspicuous incident, when a life or a marriage may change course decisively" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Carver's stories celebrate some lasting aspects of the human condition, however minimal, conjuring up a quality of fellow feeling which gives the stories a compelling, dry-eyed poignancy, a melancholy but intensely moving authenticity" (William Boyd Daily Telegraph)

"There is nobody else like him. In some ways his pared-down style is an extreme development of the Hemingway style, but Carver writes about women and the ways men relate to them far more convincingly than Hemingway ever did" (Frank Kermode)

Book Description:

'The American Chekhov' Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0099530341
• ISBN 13: 9780099530343
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192