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All of Us : The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
16.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser. | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny a ...Show more
Beginners by Raymond Carver
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Category: Fiction | Series: RC
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, "Beginners" - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer t ...Show more
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
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Category: Fiction | Series: RC
"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 ...Show more
Elephant by Raymond Carver
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Category: Fiction | Series: RC
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 ye ...Show more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
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Category: Fiction | Series: RC
"This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the ...Show more
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
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Category: Fiction | Series: RC
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, p ...Show more
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