Raymond Carver

The final story collection from "one of the great short story writers of our time" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) features classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier volumes. "Among the masterpieces of American fiction." - The New York Times Book Review By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had...

'All the stories in Cathedral are different; some funny, some hauntingly sad. Each has its own individual and curious power' Daily Telegraph Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense,...

The short story that inspired the play at the heart of Birdman starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone. This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish, and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With...

The American Chekhov - Sunday Times 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...

Where I'm Calling From, with the author's original introduction, is the essential Raymond Carver story collection. Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own selection from his short stories, revised the texts and published them in this authoritative edition. The stories in Where I'm Calling From are selected from the full range of the author's work...

‘Here is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty, utterly free of pretence. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart’ Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir of his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific...