In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.
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Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. The son of a violent alcoholic, he married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit'. A career that would eventually kill him. Constantly struggling to support his wife and family Carver enrolled in a writing programme under author John ...
Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. The son of a violent alcoholic, he married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit'. A career that would eventually kill him. Constantly struggling to support his wife and family Carver enrolled in a writing programme under author John Gardner in 1958 and he saw this as a turning point.
Rejecting the more experimental fiction of the 60s and 70s, he pioneered a precisionist realism reinventing the American short story during the eighties, heading the line of so-called 'dirty realists' or 'K-mart realists'. Set in trailer parks and shopping malls they are stories of banal lives that turn on a seeminlgy insignificant detail. Carver writes with meticulous economy suddenly bringing a life into focus in a similar way to the paintings of Edward Hopper. As well as a master of the short story he was an accomplished poet publishing several highly acclaimed volumes.
After the 'line of demarcation' in Carver's life - 2 June 1977, the day he stopped drinking - his stories become increasingly more redemptive and expansive. Alcohol had eventually shattered his health, his work and his family - his first marriage effectively ending in 1978. He finally married his long-term parter Tess Gallagher (they met ten years earlier at a writers' conference in Dallas) in Reno less than two months before he eventually lost his fight with cancer.
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Why Don’t You Dance?
Viewfinder
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit
Gazebo
I Could See the Smallest Things
Sacks
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Why Don’t You Dance?
Viewfinder
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit
Gazebo
I Could See the Smallest Things
Sacks
The Bath
Tell the Women We’re Going
After the Denim
So Much Water So Close to Home
The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off
A Serious Talk
The Calm
Popular Mechanics
Everything Stuck to Him
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
One More Thing
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“Raymond Carver's America is helpless, clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories." "Carver not only enchants, he c...“Raymond Carver's America is helpless, clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories." "Carver not only enchants, he convinces."(展开)
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4 有用 毛豆バブン 2013-03-25 12:09:18
没看懂就不瞎评了
14 有用 张眼 2013-12-02 19:12:42
卡佛的小说真是冰山理论的最好代表。对话的不连贯，人物的一个细微动作，无不暗示着一些更复杂的感情和关系。日常生活的危在旦夕，焦虑，不理解与失败的男女关系。我认为卡佛找到了一种合适的方法来表现。最喜欢sacks那篇。
3 有用 provens 2012-01-29 15:07:14
“Raymond Carver's America is helpless, clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories." "Carver not only enchants, he c... “Raymond Carver's America is helpless, clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories." "Carver not only enchants, he convinces." (展开)
1 有用 嘤嘤嘤格丽 2011-12-17 00:04:46
真苍凉
6 有用 巴赫前路迢迢 2010-10-04 05:38:28
在伦敦到扒梨的高铁上，在爱妃铁塔下的三个小时读完了这本书，我他妈也不想这么作，可是我真的好讨厌铁塔啊宁愿下面河边待着。
0 有用 西区苛刻 2024-04-09 15:42:14 法国
比起译版意外地觉得原版好像更好读🤩
0 有用 Kindaz 2024-04-05 17:08:06 江苏
每个故事都不长 读起来很轻松 作者的storytelling比较随意 同名那篇反而觉得很一般orz
0 有用 你猜我名字是啥 2024-03-19 13:41:17 湖南
今年读英文书装逼
0 有用 老朱 2024-03-09 17:34:06 新疆
久闻大名十几年，头一回看卡佛。这感觉像是去庙会猜灯谜，谜面谜目都清楚，谜底好像有无数种可能，谁说的都挺有道理。很投入，结束之后意犹未尽，就这种感觉。
0 有用 nono 2024-02-26 16:47:29 北京
没有读懂