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The collection contains the following stories: "Feathers" - A couple visit another couple who have a peacock and a baby. "Chef's House" - Wes rents Chef's house by the ocean and asks wife Edna to come live with him again. "Preservation" - Sandy's husband has taken to the sofa since he lost his job as a roofer three months before.
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) was the first major-press short-story collection by American writer Raymond Carver.Described by contemporary critics as a foundational text of minimalist fiction, its stories offered an incisive and influential telling of disenchantment in the mid-century American working class.
A fragment of Carver's unfinished novel The Augustine Notebooks was published in Iowa Review (Summer 1979), and later collected in Call If You Need Me (2000) and Collected Stories (2009). Additionally, Carver had accepted an advance on an unwritten novel from McGraw-Hill and planned to write a novel he imagined as "an African Queen sort of ...
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? , in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure ...
Those are the stories that Ray wanted to restore." [8] There was some contention between Raymond Carver and his editor Gordon Lish over several of Carver's stories; the author once complained about the "surgical amputation and transplant that might make them someway fit into the carton so the lid will close."
"Vitamins" is a short story by American author Raymond Carver. It was originally published in the Spring 1981 edition of Granta magazine and later in 1983, in the short story collection Cathedral . Plot
Beginners is the title given to the manuscript version of Raymond Carver's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, published with the permission of Carver's widow Tess Gallagher in 2009.