Short Cuts: Selected Stories
A movie tie-in edition to the brilliant new film by Robert Altman, based on these nine stories by Carver, "one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
A movie tie-in edition to the brilliant new film by Robert Altman, based on these nine stories by Carver, "one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679748649 (0679748644)
Publish date: September 14th 1993
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 157
Edition language: English
I grabbed this collection because my library didn't have "What we talk about..." available. I didn't know about the film, either, and I didn't remember Carver being so unrelentingly brutal as these collected stories are. I'd like to reread some of the original collections soon because I am curious a...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If it weren't for Raymond Carver, I wouldn't be writing the stories that I do today (excluding the horror stuff). Carver was the one who showed me you didn't need overly complicated plots. That you could in fact write about everyday things with everyday peo...