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Raymond Carver?s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ?80s. In collections such as __Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?__ and __What We Talk About When We Talk About Love__, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents. Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful for what is left unsaid, Carver?s stories were held up as exemplars of a new school in American fiction known as minimalism or ?dirty realism,? a movement whose wide influence continues to this day. Carver?s stories were brilliant in their detachment and use of the oblique, ambiguous gesture, yet there were signs of a different sort of sensibility at work. In books such as __Cathedral__ and the later tales included in the collected stories volume __Where I?m Calling From__, Carver revealed himself to be a more expansive writer than in the earlier published books, displaying Chekhovian sympathies toward his characters and relying less on elliptical effects. In g

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Author

Raymond Carver, William Stull, Maureen Carroll

Publisher

Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA), Inc.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598530469

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Short Stories

Rating

4.61 / 5 (1,463 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14