Fires - Couverture souple

Carver, Raymond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1860464513 ISBN 13 : 9781860464515

Editeur : Harvill Press, 1994

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first short stories appeared in Esquire during Gordon Lish's tenure as fiction editor in the 1970s. 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, then 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.

Revue de presse :

"You should read Fires now. These stories and poems...show the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold."

--San Francisco Chronicle

"Seminal in Carver studies...A disparate collection of work bound by a unity of vision and obsession."

--Los Angeles Herald Examiner

"Carver's most revealing book...This collection confirms the worth of Raymond Carver's work...Like bright birds in distant trees, Carver's stories appear in flashes, glimpses; Fires reveals the arc of his purposeful flight."

--The Boston Globe

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1860464513
• ISBN 13: 9781860464515
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208