Beginners - Couverture souple

Carver, Raymond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099540320 ISBN 13 : 9780099540328

Editeur : Vintage, 2010

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'An extraordinary book, more generous and rambling in tone than its distilled counterpart' Observer

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reveal what was previously unsaid, filling in the narrative silences that have both inspired and mystified readers for so long. Beginners is a fascinating insight into the aesthetic of a literary great and, in the questions it raises, may just spark off one of the great cultural debates of our times.

'Lish may have helped put Carver on the map of the American short story, but the writer made himself its capital city' Sunday Times

'Long acknowledged as a master, readers and writers have never stopped reading Carver...thanks to Gallagher, every small, vital nuance, every moving observation, each choice of word as Carver wrote it, is there to be seen' Irish Times

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. His first short stories appeared in Esquire during Gordon Lish's tenure as fiction editor in the 1970's. Carver's work began to reach a wider audience with the 1976 publication of Will You Please be Quiet, Please, but it was not until the 1981 publication of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love under Gordon Lish, now at Knopf, that he began to achieve real literary fame.This collection was edited by more than 40 per cent before publication, and Carver dedicated it to his fellow writer and future wife, Tess Gallagher, with the promise that he would one day republish his stories at full length. He went on to write two more collections of stories, Cathedral and Elephant, which moved away from the earlier minimalist style into a new expansiveness, as well as several collections of poetry. He died in 1988, aged fifty.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0099540320
• ISBN 13: 9780099540328
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 224