Random House, Inc.
Автор Carver Raymond

Описание:
This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that "tells a story" and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it's the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson's "Shiloh", or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus's "The Fat Girl", the 36 works included her probe issues that give us that "shock of recognition" that is the hallmark of great art wonderful, absorbing fiction that will be read and reread for decades to come.

Описание:
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 it's spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s.