Short Cuts, Raymond Carver
Short Cuts, Raymond Carver
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Short Cuts
Selected Stories

Author: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Unabridged: 4 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/11/2017

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

The nine stories and one poem in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of "one of the true contemporary masters" (The New York Review of Books).

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 Juan on July 07, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Betsy on December 03, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Robert on February 27, 2016

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