Raymond Carver's selection gathers stories from his collections, including "Cathedral," "Why Don't You Dance?," "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," and "Where I'm Calling From," along with new pieces. He writes about working-class Americans in kitchens, motel rooms, and cars, dealing with alcoholism, broken marriages, lost jobs, and failures to communicate. His plain, stripped-down language and unresolved endings made him a model of minimalism.
Anyone who wants to read the best-known stories of an American master in one volume will find this ideal. It suits fans of short fiction and of precise, restrained writing about ordinary struggle.
Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Wisdom Collector. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
