“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone’s heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.” in “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish Imagine the following sentence: “By 8 AM I wake...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, fraudio, published-1981, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, tbr-busting-2015 Read from December 07, 2011 to February 24, 2015 Description: This powerful collection of stories, set in the Northwest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease...
I enjoy that Carver experimented with form, language, and style but the plot of many of the stories are not my cup of tea. That being said, one story which I do quite like is "Everything Stuck to Him" on page 127.
Interesting collection of short stories, the first I've read from Carver. The stories are quite captivating in a simplistic way. They often end before the full story has been fully told. I guess that may add to the intrigue, but it frustrated me reading a story that wasn't quite done,in my eyes. I l...
It hardly needs saying from me that Carver is a magnificent writer. So consider it said. It's been a long time, on a more personal note, since I've started and finished a book in (virtually) one sitting -- I guess it means that I've gotten better as a reader -- since I started rereading fiction abou...
Definitely more than the sum of it's parts. Though some of the individual stories don't seem to mean much individually altogether they have much more weight.
A collection of short stories first published in 1981, but feeling a couple of decades older. They are heavily edited versions of "Beginners" (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/152897097).Each is a vivid glimpse of people at a troubling time in their lives. One of the early ones contains the line...
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