Raymond Carver
Paperback | Pages: 181 pages Rating: 4.25 | 13512 Users | 820 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? |
| ISBN: | 0099449897 (ISBN13: 9780099449898) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1977) |
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And here it is...the best collection of short stories I've ever read.Where has Carver been all my life? Why did no one slap me over the head with his work fifteen years ago? I mourn that it took me this long to discover him and now I must get my little claws on everything Carver asap.
How the heck can a writer capture so much power into super-short stories. I'm talking ten page stories. How?! Each one is a stand alone masterpiece with so much authenticity and sense of reality and yet, they are all small perfect little dreams of sadness. All the characters are mourning themselves, they're all hurting so beautifully.
I re-read several of these stories already and will tuck this gem away to re-read forever.
Stand outs:
“They’re Not your Husband” - Just the imagery alone is so tangible and delightful. I loved this twisted and cruel tale. It felt like a movie, a TV show, a full length novel. I wanted to stay in that diner and watch the dysfunction for hours over a slice of pie.
“Nobody Said Anything” - Such melancholy.
“Collectors” - Oh strangeness! Is there anything more lonely than a door to door vacuum salesman? No.
“Jerry and Molly and Sam” - Trapped trapped trapped. This was a mini Yates story.
The writing is haunting and soaked in a sense of foreboding. Heart-breaking. Wonderful.
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| Title | : | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? |
| Author | : | Raymond Carver |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 181 pages |
| Published | : | 2003 by Vintage Random House (first published March 1st 1976) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Literature. American |
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These stories are uniformly bleak, piercing vignettes into the disappointments and insecurities of working class people. The relentlessness of the raw pain on display here was very stark and at times very, very difficult to continue reading. That being said, these are some of the most beautifully written stories you are likely to come across, even if you need to take some time to recuperate in between finishing one and starting another.I'm not sure whether I've given five stars to a collection of short stories before, but these were outstanding. Carver's penetrating depictions of the ordinary and extraordinary struggles of married life are refreshingly honest, gritty and disturbing. He finds simple moments that are filled with subtle implications, and he has this way of just walking away and leaving unsaid the most salient element of the story, forcing the reader to adopt the anguish of the characters, and denying any
i do not understand why i am never sick of raymond carver. somehow, i just plow through every story, even though most of the time it's clear it's going to end up like most carver stories do - with some bloody thread hanging there untied, hinting at something really awful. but out of all of his short story collections (minus, you know, the big one of all the stories), this one is my favorite, i think. maybe it's because it opens with a fat man from the circus in a diner. that's very possibly the
Perfectly lovely stories, just not my thing.
It was good to come to this book cold, knowing very little about Carver or his reputation and life story. Im not sure why I had never read any of his stories before, but Im glad that I have started now.Two initial impressions from the twenty-two stories in this collection. First is about period I felt they transcended a particular period and as a result I found it hard to place them in a particular age. First published in the 1970s they could easily date back to the 1950s. It also means they
This collection was my introduction to Raymond Carver, a writer who Ive been eager to read for a long time since I found out he was writing buddy to one of my favourites of all time, John Cheever. The Stories of John Cheever is a prized possession in my bookcase. They are a revelation to me; despite their brevity, the poetic force and lyricism is sometimes more than I can find in a single novel. But enough about Cheever. Carver is quite a different proposition. To begin with, he mainly focuses
3.5 stars. Great stories with superb characterisation. I especially loved the dialoguesthey were utterly brilliant! The reason why I could not give this wonderful collection a higher rating was because they were too many cliffhangers. Open-ended stories are lovely but when there are too many of them, it makes the reader feel impatient:..
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