American Short Story Masterpieces

Informationen zum Autor Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. 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 in August of that year, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall. Klappentext America's most exciting and important writers are represented in this wonderfully rich collection of contemporary classics that date from the 1950s through the 1980s. Includes selections of James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth and more.

Product details

• Authors: Carver Jenks-Carver, Tom Jenks
• Assisted by: Raymond Carver (Editor), Tom Jenks (Editor)
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.1989
• EAN: 9780440204237
• ISBN: 978-0-440-20423-7
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 170 mm x 28 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature