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Will You Please be Quiet, Please? (Hardcover)

by Raymond Carver (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: The Harvill Press (2 Nov 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1860460798
  • ISBN-13: 978-1860460791
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.4 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 319,773 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A collection of stories by Raymond Carver.


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'Carver has made himself the natural successor to his true mentor, Chekhov.' Martin Seymour-Smith, Financial Times

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.

'Potent ... Carver's prose, for all its simplicity, carries his mark everywhere ... His tact and precision are marvellous. [His] stories have been carefully shaped, shorn or ornamentation and directed away from anything that might mislead ... Mr Carver's work here is done, and wonderfully.' Geoffrey Wolff, New York Times

'Raymond Carver's stories can now be counted amongst the master-pieces of American fiction.' Irving Howe

'Filled with glass-sharp details, images and conversations ... Carver has a wicked, ironic imagination. With painful, funny acuteness, he captures the electric currents that shoot through people's lives and singe them indelibly.' Newsweek --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Carver's people do little and say even less : beautifully, 15 Oct 1999
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This review is from: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Panther) (Paperback)
I started reading Carver having seen Altman's film Short Cuts, and mainly because of its very funny portrayal of ordinary white working class American lives. How so different to this same world as portrayed by Carver himself. I have never read such sparse and quiet a narrative often so absent of events but which speak so directly to you and with such caring insight into people and their problems. The events and problems are often not those which can be translated or put into words for the benefit of a non-reader - Carver weaves impressions and lingering emotions which relate the lives of his folk rather than spreading out bare their lives before you, although paradoxically this is in fact exactly what he does achieve by standing back and allowing characters to tell their own story.

I find Carver the most original and intuitive voice - the craft of short story writing is much the poorer for his death.

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5.0 out of 5 stars In the presence of greatness., 21 Jun 1999
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This review is from: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Panther) (Paperback)
...It is a conundrum that some of our greatest writers are so under-read if you like.

What you get with RAYMOND CARVER is a deep insight into human behaviour and emotion. His stories are often set around the mundane and frequently have no satisfactory resolution of the problems/situations that confront the main characters , but what a web this man spins. It is the sign of greaatness to do all of the above in such simple but effective language.

His style of writing is so different , that you may find like I did , that initially you are confused by the stories within this book. Persist. It took me about three stories until I skipped to THE STUDENT'S WIFE and then followed this by reading BICYCLES , MUSCLES, CIGARETTES .

SMACK!

They literally blew me away.

Buy this book and treasure the wisdom within I am not a re-reader of books but I found myself reading this again .

Rest in peace RAYMOND CARVER . You brought a devasting original voice into the short story form , and for that I salute you.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, 9 May 2000
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The taut sentences of Carver's prose effectively contain and transmit the understated emotions and subtle conflicts that dominate everyday life.
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