Raymond Carver
1) Short Cuts
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En el invierno de 1990, fracasado su proyecto para una película sobre Rossini, Robert Altman abandona Italia. Pide algo para leer en el avión, su secretaria le da varios libros de Raymond Carver y, cuando llega a los Estados Unidos, Altman tiene la certeza de que allí hay otra película. Absolutamente fiel al estilo (a una visión de América, de unos tiempos y de una manera de vivir) y libre con respecto a la letra, las formas, los personajes,...
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Los deslumbrados lectores de Catedral, primer libro publicado en España de Carver, reencontrarán en De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor la atmósfera y los personajes de un autor que dominó indiscutiblemente el panorama literario norteamericano de los años 80. Parejas que se despedazan, compañeros que parten desesperadamente a la aventura, hijos que intentan comunicarse con sus padres, un universo injusto, violento, tenso, a veces irrisorio...
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The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman.
"Raymond Carver's America is ... clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as...
"Raymond Carver's America is ... clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as...
8) Ultramarine
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Publication Date
c1986
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xiii, 140 p. ; 22 cm.
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The author's first major collection of poetry.
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c1985
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xii, 130 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Winner of Poetry Magazine’s Levinson Prize, an illuminating collection from the middle of his career, Raymond Carver’s poems “function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.
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Publication Date
1992
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251 pages ; 21 cm.
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With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story and instantly became both the recognized master of the form and one of our best-loved and most widely read fiction writers. His stories can "be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction".--The New York Times Book Review.
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Publication Date
1992
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239 p. ; 21 cm.
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This volume of previously uncollected work represents the final legacy of one of the great and truly American writers of our time. It includes five of Raymond Carver's early stories (including the first one he ever published), a fragment of an unpublished novel, poems that have previously appeared only in small-press editions, and all of his uncollected nonfiction. Included here as well is Carver's last essay, "Friendship" about a London reunion with...
18) Winter insomnia
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©1970
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56 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
19) Beginners
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2015.
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xii, 221 pages ; 21 cm
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"Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential and the pieces in "What We Talk About" . . ., which portray the gritty loves and lives of the American working class, are counted among the foundation stones of the contemporary short story. In this unedited text, we gain insight into the process of a great writer. These expansive stories illuminate the many...