Raymond Carver
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • From 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 finding one’s way through the dark.
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” is included here with its unedited version, “Beginners,” which...
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” is included here with its unedited version, “Beginners,” which...
Author
Language
English
Description
The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman.
"Raymond Carver's America is ... clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as...
"Raymond Carver's America is ... clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as...
Author
Language
English
Description
The collected poems of a native of Oregon. In Venice, he writes: "The gondolier handed you a rose. Took us up one canal and then another. We glided past Casanova's palace, the palace of the Rossi family, palaces belonging to the Baglioni, the Pisani, and Sangallo. Flooded. Stinking."
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the recently discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death, are published for the first time. Includes all of Carver's prose previously collected, and five stories found recently among his papers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story and instantly became both the recognized master of the form and one of our best-loved and most widely read fiction writers. His stories can "be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction".--The New York Times Book Review.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nick, a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the worst day of his life. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line, or, rather, on the lawn, as he moves himself and all his possessions to his front yard.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
This volume of previously uncollected work represents the final legacy of one of the great and truly American writers of our time. It includes five of Raymond Carver's early stories (including the first one he ever published), a fragment of an unpublished novel, poems that have previously appeared only in small-press editions, and all of his uncollected nonfiction. Included here as well is Carver's last essay, "Friendship" about a London reunion with...
19) Jindabyne
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.
