Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (Vintage Classics)
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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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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.
Title: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (Vintage Classics)
Author: Raymond Carver
ISBN: 9780099530343
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 2009-11-05
Number of Pages: 192
Weight: 0.1407 kg
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 *
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