Short Cuts
Selected Stories

El presente volumen de cuentos de Carver es una selección que hizo el cineasta Robert Altman de la obra de este excelente autor. Me di cuenta tarde que eran relatos que ya había leído, en algunos casos hace una década. Igual, notaba que eran algo distintos a como yo los recordaba. La solución es simp......more

I'd never read Carver before and probably won't read more even though I admired and liked his pithy "just-telling-what-happened" style. Most of these stories are slices of life: drinking men's dark nights of the soul, the unhappy women in their lives (even if the narrator is a woman), male violence,......more

If I could give this book ten stars, I would. I LOVE Ray Carver's book(s) so freaking much. I remember reading stories from this collection before I really decided to become an author, and his scope of storytelling made me write in my journal, even as an undergrad: I wish I wrote that sentence. Abou......more