Short Cuts: Selected Stories - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Raymond Carver, Robert AltmanSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:1993-09-14Pages:160
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679748649ISBN-10:679748644UPC:9780679748649Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), Media Tie-InSize:8.05 x 5.15 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.33Product ID:SCP9DDRPXJ
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.
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679748649ISBN-10:679748644UPC:9780679748649Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), Media Tie-InSize:8.05 x 5.15 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.33Product ID:SCP9DDRPXJ
RAYMOND CARVER was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.
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