Granta Books, Author, Michael Ignatieff, Author, Raymond Carver, Author Granta (NY) $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-9645611-1-3
Tolstoy's observation that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way finds resonance in this collection of essays and stories about families, predominantly miserable ones, culled from the British literary magazine Granta, some of which became...
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Raymond Carver, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (130p) ISBN 978-0-394-74327-1
Best-known for his wonderful short stories (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, etc.), Carver works the same narrative magic in these poems. In everyday language he offers memories of his family and past loves, uses fishing and hunting...
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Raymond Carver, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $19.95 (393p) ISBN 978-0-87113-216-1
The cool streamlined style of this modern master of the short story has spawned dozens of younger writers who seek to follow in Carver's footsteps. But where the Brat Pack frequently produces flat, unresonating fiction, Carver has the ability to...
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Raymond Carver, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (239p) ISBN 978-0-679-74007-0
This ragtag collection features juvenilia (four short stories written during Carver's undergraduate years and a fifth composed shortly afterward), poetry from the author's small press books, the fragment of a novel, essays and other miscellany. The...
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Raymond Carver, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (416p) ISBN 978-0-375-40398-9
Carver published three major poetry collections during the five years prior to his death in 1988 at age 50. Edited by Univ. of Hartford professor William Stull, and introduced by Carver's widow, the poet Tess Gallagher, this definitive gathering...
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Raymond Carver, Author, Tess Gallagher, Foreword by Vintage Books USA $15 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-72628-6
For fans of Carver, who died in 1988, the five newly discovered stories collected here are like a stash of diamonds stumbled upon in a long-abandoned mine. The writer's style is, as always, spare and succinct, demonstrating Carver's ability to see...
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Raymond Carver, Author, Tess Gallagher, Illustrator, Tess Gallagher, Introduction by Atlantic Monthly Press $15.95 (126p) ISBN 978-0-87113-280-2
Short-story writer and poet Carver, who died of cancer in 1988, wrote these poems during his last few months. Many of them are luminous flashes, poised and tender meditations, while others read like cathartic, unresolved statements by a man...
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Raymond Carver, Author, Tess Gallagher, Introduction by Atlantic Monthly Press $14 (160p) ISBN 978-0-87113-374-8
Carver, who died in 1988, wrote these poems during his last g months. ``Many of them are luminous flashes, poised and tender meditations, while others read like cathartic, unresolved statements by a man struggling to come to terms with his life in...
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