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Elephant and Other Stories (Paperback)

by Raymond Carver (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (4 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099449862
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099449867
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 40,893 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Elephant is superb and suggests how much he still had to give' Ian McEwan


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These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing and thought-provoking, 7 Jun 2007
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These stories are all about characters facing a fact and making a change because of that fact - either their own mortality (Whoever Was Using This Bed), their failures as a husband and partner (Menudo) and their relationship with their mother (Boxes). They're all low-key and demand a second reading immediately as you finish them because there are so many nuances to Carver's characters and what they face that you find yourself picking up new layers on each subsequent reading.

My favourite story in the collection was Boxes - a story about a man dealing with is infuriating mother who has packed up to move to the other side of the country but still hasn't quite gotten around to doing it yet. It's a very sad story, in that you can feel the narrator's frustration at dealing with a mother who never listens to what he says but who he loves and feels obliged to nevertheless and the ending where she does leave and he realises that this is the last time that he will see her is particularly bittersweet.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written; a snapshot of small town America., 3 Feb 2000
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This review is from: Elephant (Hardcover)
The short stories in 'Elephant' are simply written without a hint of pretension and examine ordinary people facing everyday problems in small town America. The stories have no beginning nor an end and are merely a snapshot into people's lives. These snapshots are beautifully written, though sometimes it is necessary to read between the lines to absorb their full impact.
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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars softly bruising your soul, 18 April 2003
This review is from: Elephant (Hardcover)
Read all of Raymond Carver's short stories. To begin there may not seem that much to them, but if you read slowly, taking in each of his precise words, you'll find the true impact of these heart wrenching stories- often a day or two later.
Carver shows us our quietest, loneliest moments. He makes no judgements, he just says: 'Here we are.' His short stories are gifts to humanity. Take the gift.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is how life is lived
The last collection of stories by this much feted short-fiction writer, Elephant, is a triumph of understatement, replete with emotional resonance. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars CARVE THE PAGE!
Raymond is good at what he doesn't write. If you want to learn how to subtract from text and master in the difficult art of silence, buy this book as well as other by Carver.
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