Raymond Carver
1) Short Cuts
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From “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss—and formed the basis for the film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman.
With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of “one of the true contemporary masters” (The New York Review of Books)....
With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of “one of the true contemporary masters” (The New York Review of Books)....
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A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. 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 "Boxes."
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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...
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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.
10) Catedral
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Se ha afirmado que el relato es la forma narrativa por excelencia en la literatura norteamericana actual y que Raymond Carver es el maestro indiscutible de este registro. En cada relato de Catedral se revela la presencia latente o la intrusión de "terrores extraordinarios en una existencia ordinaria" (Cathleen Medwick). El propio Carver ha escrito: "Pienso que es bueno que en un relato haya un leve aire de amenaza... Debe haber tensión, una sensación
...12) Short cuts
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While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.