Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Raymond Carver
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Raymond Carver
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Stories

Author: Raymond Carver

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Unabridged: 7 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/20/2017

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story and instantly became both the recognized master of the form and one of our best-loved and most widely read fiction writers. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.

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 Vit

There are those for whom life always comes up roses… And there are those to whom life always shows its backside… People live ordinary day-to-day lives… But when they meet each other, they see each other as the strange ones… “Strange,” he said as he started down the stairs. He took a long breath when......more

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