Will You Please be Quiet, Please? - Couverture souple

Carver, Raymond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099449897 ISBN 13 : 9780099449898

Editeur : Vintage, 2003

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to come second to earning a living for his young family. Despite, small-press publication, it was not until Will You Please Be Quiet Please? appeared in 1976 that his work began to reach a wider audience. This was the year in which he gave up alcohol, which had contributed to the collapse of his marriage. In 1977 he met the writer Tess Gallagher, with whom he shared the last eleven years of his life. During this prolific period he wrote three collections of stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral and Elephant. Fires, a collection of essays, poems and stories, appeared in 1985, followed by three further collections of poetry. In 1988 he completed the poetry collection A New Path to the Waterfall.

Quatrième de couverture :

'Carver's stories have a compelling, dry-eyed poignancy, a melancholy but intensely moving authenticity' William Boyd, Daily Telegraph

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.

See Also: Elephant

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099449897
• ISBN 13: 9780099449898
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192