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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary American literature, lovers of poignant essays, poetry, and short fiction, and anyone keen on exploring the intersections of personal history and artistic influence in storytelling.
Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing life;
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
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‘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 Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing life.
This collection is complemented by fifty poems, many of them not collected elsewhere, and seven stories, including three from the early collection Furious Seasons.
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Critics praise Carver as a master of precise and poignant storytelling, lauding Fires as an indispensable collection that affirms his status as a major American writer. Reviews highlight the perfect pitch and tone of his stories, which revive faith in the power of straightforward narrative, while his free verse poetry reads beautifully and complements his prose.
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ISBN: 9780099530367
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 November 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 428g
Pages: 208
About the Author
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.
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