Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679722394 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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The "fires" in his life! - Greatest influences When Raymond Carver died in 1988 at 50, the literary world lost a truly unique short story writer. Carver, a master at dialogue and often called a minimalist, created stories with substance where a mystery looms beyond the surface, stories so commonplace, with common people doing common things.It's true, the stories are laced with people who endure alcoholic sadness, financial burdens, emotional immaturity and those just searching for the d. "The fire this time" according to Shalom Freedman. This review relates to the poems, and not the essays and the stories. The poems are among Carver's best. They mark out the time of life when he is most deeply disturbed. So the poems about alcoholism ( although this is not the right way of saying it because they are never simply just about that) are among the most moving. His long poem on Charles Bukowski is very effective. It gives a sense of how this kind of 'portrait of another person' b. Raymond Carver's Minimalist Prose Provides Maximum Impact Raymond Carver's "Fires" is a quick introduction to the author who personifies literary minimalism. In this slim volume, the reader is treated to essays and poems, as well as Carver's trademark: taut short stories that, in remarkably few words, paint a vivid tableau of so much of American life. Carver's subjects are ones that other writers shy away from: working-class stiffs and the mundane lives they lead. But Carver's magic lies in his ab
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 c
These stories and poemsshow the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold."--San Francisco Chronicle"Seminal in Carver studiesA disparate collection of work bound by a unity of vision and obsession."--Los Angeles Herald Examiner"Carver's most revealing bookThis collection confirms the worth of Raymond Carver's workLike bright birds in distant trees, Carver's stories appear in flashes, glimpses; Fires reveals the arc of his purposeful flight."--The Boston Globe. "You should read Fires now
Two of the stories—later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love—are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver’s literary development.. More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver