Beginners

Name: Beginners
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Raymond Carver
ISBN: 9781515984511

Author: Raymond Carver

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/15/2016

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

Here is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver's seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. 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 dimensions of Carver’s style, and are indispensable to our understanding of his legacy.

About Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luca

English (Beginners) / Italiano «A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house» Yes, the protagonist of "Viewfinder", one of the shortest novel of this collection, has two hooks for hands. And the first edition of this collection of novels suffered the same fate of those ampu......more

Goodreads review by Konstantina

Γίνεται μια συλλογή διηγημάτων να έχει μόνο εξαιρετικά διηγήματα; Ναι, γίνεται! Κι αυτή η συλλογή είναι η συγκεκριμένη. Μέγα Κάρβερ! Ένα προς ένα μοναδικά! Συναντάμε κι εδώ αυτοβιογραφικά στοιχεία. Συναντάμε κι εδώ την Αμερική, τη ζωή στο Νέο Κόσμο. Συναντάμε κι εδώ ένα λόγο λιτό που σε αγγίζει κι έ......more

Goodreads review by Chris_P

Raymond Carver - Beginners The fact that Carver's literary brilliance survived through the heavy abridgement his initial writings were subjected to by his editor is merely one more proof of that same brilliance. Reading his work in its initial full form is a completely different experience than that......more