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| Title | : | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? |
| Author | : | Raymond Carver |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 181 pages |
| Published | : | 2003 by Vintage Random House (first published March 1st 1976) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Literature. American |
Raymond Carver
Paperback | Pages: 181 pages Rating: 4.25 | 13512 Users | 820 Reviews
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And here it is...the best collection of short stories I've ever read.Where has Carver been all my life? Why did no one slap me over the head with his work fifteen years ago? I mourn that it took me this long to discover him and now I must get my little claws on everything Carver asap.
How the heck can a writer capture so much power into super-short stories. I'm talking ten page stories. How?! Each one is a stand alone masterpiece with so much authenticity and sense of reality and yet, they are all small perfect little dreams of sadness. All the characters are mourning themselves, they're all hurting so beautifully.
I re-read several of these stories already and will tuck this gem away to re-read forever.
Stand outs:
“They’re Not your Husband” - Just the imagery alone is so tangible and delightful. I loved this twisted and cruel tale. It felt like a movie, a TV show, a full length novel. I wanted to stay in that diner and watch the dysfunction for hours over a slice of pie.
“Nobody Said Anything” - Such melancholy.
“Collectors” - Oh strangeness! Is there anything more lonely than a door to door vacuum salesman? No.
“Jerry and Molly and Sam” - Trapped trapped trapped. This was a mini Yates story.
The writing is haunting and soaked in a sense of foreboding. Heart-breaking. Wonderful.
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| Original Title: | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? |
| ISBN: | 0099449897 (ISBN13: 9780099449898) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1977) |
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Ratings: 4.25 From 13512 Users | 820 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
This collection was my introduction to Raymond Carver, a writer who Ive been eager to read for a long time since I found out he was writing buddy to one of my favourites of all time, John Cheever. The Stories of John Cheever is a prized possession in my bookcase. They are a revelation to me; despite their brevity, the poetic force and lyricism is sometimes more than I can find in a single novel. But enough about Cheever. Carver is quite a different proposition. To begin with, he mainly focusesThese stories are uniformly bleak, piercing vignettes into the disappointments and insecurities of working class people. The relentlessness of the raw pain on display here was very stark and at times very, very difficult to continue reading. That being said, these are some of the most beautifully written stories you are likely to come across, even if you need to take some time to recuperate in between finishing one and starting another.
This has been one of the most rewarding, most enjoyable years I've had in more than two decades of being an insatiable reader. I've discovered new authors to idolize, fallen even harder for longstanding heroes, experienced the rabid glee of revisiting much-loved works and immersed myself in genres that I suddenly cannot live without. Unfortunately, the awe of January's introduction to the raw beauty of Raymond Carver (who has forever changed my interest in and opinion of short stories for the
Carver's stories made me feel from uncomfortable to deeply sad. They all feel like a sunset in a small town with the smell of damp soil in the air and the yellow grass shining like gold against the sun. Don't ask me to explain it, but even the ones that take place on cold, winter nights felt like that to me. I never thought that such short stories could be so whole, so full of meaning and human emotions. The titular story is a masterpiece in itself.
Oohhh I like Carver. Nothing happens in this short stories, they're great. This collection is very good, there are some bumps along the road but that's to be expected in a collection of 22 stories. I'll definitely be reading more Carver.
Not in pictures she had seen nor in any book she had read had she learned a sunrise was so terrible as this. Raymond Carver, "The Student's Wife" in Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?A collection of 22 short stories averaging about 6-8 pages each (a couple might stray into the 11-15 page range) that Carver wrote during what Carver called his "Bad Raymond days" or "First Life" (1960-1974) . Disclosure, like in other short story collections, I may have put one star too many on some of these and
This is a collection of strange and disturbing short stories with weird titles, elusive meanings and rather abrupt endings. Raymond Carver has a unique way of offering us a glimpse into the inner lives of his characters. He uses their physical actions and bursts of short conversation but very little actual description of what the character is going through. It is all about the way the stories make you feel. Most of the stories involved a random happening in the life of an individual or a couple
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