Great Books: Cathedral, collection of stories by Raymond Carver

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  • Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (LOA #195): Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Cathedral / stories ... / other stories (Library of America)

    • ASIN: 1598530461
    • ISBN: 1598530461
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge ... [Read More]

  • American Short Story Masterpieces: A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

    • ASIN: 0440204232
    • ISBN: 0440204232
    • Brand: 2049145481
    • Manufacturer: Dell

    This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mir... [Read More]

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories

    • ASIN: 0679723056
    • ISBN: 0679723056
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

    • ASIN: 0679722319
    • ISBN: 9780679722311
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories

    • ASIN: 0679735690
    • ISBN: 9780679735694
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time."[Carver's stories] can ... be counted among the masterpieces of American Literature." --The New York Times Book Revie... [Read More]

  • Short Cuts: Selected Stories

    • ASIN: 0679748644
    • ISBN: 0679748644
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    The nine stories and one poem collected 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. From the collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Where I’m Calling F... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]

  • The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759447169
    • ASIN: 0486447162
    • ISBN: 0486447162
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A &... [Read More]

  • American Short Story Masterpieces (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759499137
    • ASIN: 0486499138
    • ISBN: 0486499138
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    As variegated as the American experience itself, this original treasury reflects the vibrant role of the short story in our national literature. Fourteen outstanding tales by famous American authors unfold in settings ranging from the decaying family mansion of Edgar Allan Poe's dark psychological thriller, "The Fall of the House of Usher," to the ... [Read More]

  • Homesick for Another World: Stories

    • ASIN: 0399562907
    • ISBN: 0399562907
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time"I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen w... [Read More]

  • On Becoming a Novelist

    • ASIN: 0393320030
    • ISBN: 0393320030
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood)

    • ASIN: 0399587594
    • ISBN: 0399587594
    • Brand: Ace
    • Manufacturer: Ace

    For the first time together in one volume, the complete short story collection starring Sookie Stackhouse—with a new introduction from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the series, Charlaine Harris. For the first time together in one volume, here is the complete short story collection starring Louisiana’s favorite telepathic waitress,... [Read More]

  • The Heaven of Animals: Stories

    • ASIN: 1476729972
    • ISBN: 1476729972
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Named one of Amazon’s Best Short Story Collections of 2014 One of Atlanta Journal Constitution’s 9 Best Books of 2014 Best Short Story Collection of the Year, Tweed's Magazine Winner of GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction 2014 LA Times Book Prize Finalist Winner of the Florida Book Awards Silver Medal for Fiction Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. ... [Read More]

  • Love Is No Small Thing: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction)

    • ASIN: 080716626X
    • ISBN: 080716626X
    • Manufacturer: LSU Press

    Meghan Kenny’s debut collection, Love Is No Small Thing, gives readers an assembly of keenly drawn characters each navigating the world looking for an understanding of love in its many forms and complexities―be it romantic, parental, elusive, or eternal. A father may teach his teenage son “Hearts break easy,” but as Kenny’s characters dis... [Read More]

  • Factotum

    • ASIN: 0876852630
    • ISBN: 9780876852637
    • Brand: Brand: Ecco
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day... [Read More]

  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

    • ASIN: 0804170126
    • ISBN: 0804170126
    • Brand: Haruki Murakami
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the remarkable story of a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. Here Haruki Murakami—one of the most... [Read More]

  • My Detective

    • ASIN: 1982517298
    • ISBN: 1982517298
    • Manufacturer: Blackstone Publishing

    Los Angeles is booming. Money is pouring in. Buildings are going up. But someone is killing architects. Detective Sam Carver journeys through sins scattered across the City of Angels, where hipsters, homeless, immigrants, producers, politicians, movie stars, and cops collide in mysterious ways. Every move Carver makes is anticipated by the killer, ... [Read More]

  • Best American Short Stories, 1986

    • ASIN: 0395383986
    • ISBN: 0395383986
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada

  • Short Cuts

    • ASIN: 1860460402
    • ISBN: 1860460402
    • Brand: Vintage Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Uk

    This book contains the nine stories and one poem on which Robert Altman has based his film Short Cuts.

  • Cathedral (Vintage Contemporaries)

    • ASIN: B00XST7KK8
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

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