Best Selling Books by Raymond Carver

The first collection of stories from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) breathed new life into the American short story, showing us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people. "[Carver''s stories] can ... be counted among the masterpieces of American Literature." —The New York Times Book Review "One of the great short story writers of our time—of any time." —The Philadelhpia Inquirer "The whole collection is a knock out. Few writers can match Raymond Carver''s entwining style and language." —The Dallas Morning News

Raymond Carver''s gritty texts, combined with Adelman''s photographs of Carver''s people and haunts, re-create the world of this major writer, bringing to life the bleak, blue-collar towns, people, and places that became the inspiration for much of his work. 113 duotone photos.

Shortly before he died, America''s laureate of the dispossessed made his own selection from his short stories, revised the texts and published them in this authorative edition. The stories in Where I''m Calling From are selected from the full range of the author''s work including Furious Seasons, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, and Cathedral and include all seven stories from his last collection, Elephant.

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • From one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature, the story that launched a thousand homages, in word and film—a haunting meditation on love and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” is included here with its unedited version, “Beginners,” which was originally submitted to Carver’s editor, Gordon Lish. In this eShort, readers can compare both versions of this iconic work of fiction, gaining insight into Carver’s aesthetic and the foundations of the contemporary American short story.

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Twelve short stories that mark a turning point in the work of “one of the true American masters" (The New York Review of Books). “A writer of astonishing compassion and honesty … His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart.” —The Washington Post Book World A remarkable collection that includes the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories “overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.” —The Washington Post Book World

The complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered “last” stories, published here in book form for the first time—from “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver’s mature writing and give his devoted readers a final glimpse of the great writer at work. The pure pleasure of Carver’s writing is everywhere in his work, here no less than in those stories that have already entered the canon of modern literature.

《我们所有人：雷蒙德·卡佛诗全集》 This complete edition brings together all the poems of Carver''s five previous books, from Fires to the posthumously published No Heroics, Please. It also contains bibliographical and textual notes on individual poems; a chronology of Carver''s life and work; and a moving introduction by Carver''s widow, the poet Tess Gallagher. 本书涵盖了雷蒙德·卡佛一生创作的所有诗歌作品，文学价值尤为珍贵。卡佛诗歌具有其小说所有的美德：对于物质世界的深切关注，将广阔情感压缩在朴素瞬间的非凡能力，以及谈话式的亲切的诗歌声音。同时，他亦创造了一种奇妙的卡佛式的诗歌语调：柔软而克制，朴素而深邃，微妙地掌握着语言的尺度与抒情的适度。这种迷人的气息，像一层薄雾，淡淡地笼罩在卡佛的每一行文字中。卡佛的爱和感伤都隐藏在这种柔软的冷叙述里。

From “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—comes more than sixty stories, poems, and essays, including two early versions from the seminal collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. "Show[s] the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold." —San Francisco Chronicle A wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories that were later significantly revised in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love appear here in their original form, revealing clearly the astounding process of Carver’s literary development.

Winner of Poetry Magazine’s Levinson Prize • An illuminating collection of poems from the middle of Carver''s career that “function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge” (The New York Times). "The stories poems tell are so wonderfully self-contained, so self-evident, so gracefully metaphorical." —The Village Voice "There is a severity of language, an understatement of emotion, that endows the poems of his first major collection with the feel of extraordinary experience. To read them is to have the sense this man has lived more than most of us. We trust him because of the plainly conversational diction and the lapel-grabbing rhythms.... They are very moving, very memorable." —Poetry

From “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss—and formed the basis for the film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of “one of the true contemporary masters” (The New York Review of Books). Features stories from the collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Where I’m Calling From, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and A New Path to the Waterfall; including an introduction by Robert Altman.

The twenty-five interviews gathered here, several available in English for the first time, include craft interviews, biographical portraits, self-analyses, & wide-ranging reflections on the current literary scene.

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《当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》 In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver''s characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women. 《当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》是雷蒙德·卡佛优秀的短篇小说集，由17篇短篇小说组成。讲述了如餐馆女招待、锯木厂工人、修车工、推销员和汽车旅馆管理员等社会底层的体力劳动者的生活。这些普通人有着普通人的愿望，做着再普通不过的事情，但他们发现自己在为生存而挣扎，无法达到在常人看来并不远大的人生目标。他们的生活中充满了窘困和不如意，婚姻破裂，失业，酗酒，破产。卡佛用“极简”的遣词、冷静疏离的叙事，表现了现代社会中人的边缘性以及现代人脆弱的自我意识。本书的出版，为美国短篇小说写作注入了新的生命，并为卡佛赢得了“美国的契诃夫”的称号，使他成为美国继海明威之后受到模仿最多的作家。