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By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands...

This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that "tells a story"-and tells it with a...

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...

Raymond Carver finished A New Path To The Waterfall shortly before his death in August 1988. These fifty poems--as hard and clear and emotionally pure as his short stories--chart a human journey: false starts and redemptions, the...

7 short stories. von Carver, Raymond

„What We Talk About When We Talk About Love“ von Raymond Carver ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die sich mit den komplexen und oft unergründlichen Facetten der Liebe auseinandersetzen. Die Titelgeschichte dreht sich um zwei Paare,...

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first short stories appeared in Esquire during Gordon Lish's tenure as fiction editor in the 1970s. Carver's work began to reach a wider audience with the 1976 publication of...

"Short Cuts" ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten des amerikanischen Autors Raymond Carver, die ursprünglich in verschiedenen seiner früheren Werke erschienen sind. Die Geschichten bieten einen eindringlichen Einblick in das Leben...

"Elephant" ist eine Kurzgeschichte von Raymond Carver, die in der gleichnamigen Sammlung veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte dreht sich um einen namenlosen Erzähler, der finanziell für seine Familie verantwortlich ist. Er unterstützt...

"Warum tanzt ihr nicht: Erzählungen" von Raymond Carver ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die das alltägliche Leben und die oft subtilen Dramen darin beleuchten. Carver, bekannt für seinen minimalistischen Stil, zeichnet in diesen...

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to come second to earning a living for his young family....