New Releases by Raymond Carver

Over the past 15 years, Granta has published fiction, memoir, biography, and reportage inspired by the relationships forced on us by the accident of birth. From Saul Bellow''s tale of his immigrant parents to Bret Easton Ellis'' chilling description of a Hollywood marriage, the best and, at times, the most disturbing are collected here in this noteworthy collection.

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.

This volume of previously uncollected work represents the final legacy of one of the great and truly American writers of our time. It includes five of Raymond Carver''s early stories (including the first one he ever published), a fragment of an unpublished novel, poems that have previously appeared only in small-press editions, and all of his uncollected nonfiction. Included here as well is Carver''s last essay, "Friendship" about a London reunion with Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff. Arranged chronologically, this book affords an intimate and comprehensive thirty-year vision of a great writer in the process of becoming himself.

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.

Short stories.

"Carver''s gifts as a storyteller shine through his poetry" (Los Angeles Times) in this collection that moves from the beauty of the world to thoughts of mortality and family and art. One of Raymond Carver’s final collections of poetry, this collection “has the astonished, chastened voice of a person who has survived a wreck, as surprised that he had a life before it as that he has one afterward, willing to remember both sides” (The New York Times Book Review).

Contains mostly first (some second) editions of selected works by Raymond Carver.