Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories
by Raymond Carver
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Author: Raymond CarverEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-06-09
ISBN: 0679735690
Number of pages: 251
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Please Discover Carver, Please!
Summary: 5 Stars
Raymond Carver's celebrayed 22 short story collection that re drew the map of short story telling. The stories are often brief and give just the slightest of moments in ordinary peoples lives, yet proves the adage that everyone is extraordinary.Depite the lack of background detail and the feeling you are either thrown in or intruding on a situation that is none of your business, there is something deeply human and personal to each tale;the tensions brought on by day to day exsistence, the need for identity, to belong, to fit in-even shame at what your life is or your partners appearence,that make you instantly relate to that something that Carver manages to install in each tale. How many tales has anyone written about a door to door vacuum salesman ('Collectors') for example, that give an insight to our own hopes and failings?
I've read Carver's 'What we talk about when we talk about Love' and this collection is every bit as impressive. If you haven't 'discovered' Raymond Carver, please do!
Summary of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories
With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.Classics Books
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