(Paperback)

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'.

(Paperback)

This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK.

(Paperback)

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story.

(Paperback)

This anthology presents five previously unpublished stories by Raymond Carver, in addition to five early stories, part of an unfinished novel, and all his non-fiction prose. The works are introduced by his partner.

(Paperback)

This edition brings together in one volume (in their US order of publication), the poems of "Fires", "When Water Comes Togeher With Other Water", "Ultramarine", "A New Path to the Waterfall" and "No Heroics Please". The text is supplied with brief notes on first publication.

(Paperback)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date.

(Paperback)

Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.

(Paperback)

Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing life;

(Hardback)

Carver transformed the American short story in the 1970s and 80s with spare, intense, often disturbing dramas. Gathering for the first time all Carver's stories, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of Carver's career.

(Paperback)

This volume comprises the nine short stories and a poem by Carver from which Robert Altman wove his acclaimed film of the same title and it comes with an introduction by the director. Together the stories create an incisive portrait of American life and the American psyche.

(Paperback)

A unique collection by an extraordinary writer, this collection of Carver's best spans his literary career and includes seven new works. Since his untimely death in August of 1988, Raymond Carver's popularity has increased dramatically.

(Paperback)

Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own selection from his short stories. This edition includes a selection from the full range of the author's work including, Furious Seasons, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, and Cathedral, and seven stories from, Elephant.