Beginners：The Original Version of What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

作者: Raymond Carver 著

出版社: Vintage

出版时间: 2015-09

ISBN: 9780307947925

定价: 112.10

装帧: 平装

开本: 其他

纸张: 其他

页数: 240页

正文语种: 英语

丛书: Vintage Contemporaries

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

HereistheoriginalmanuscriptofRaymondCarver’sseminal1981collection,WhatWeTalkAboutWhenWeTalkAboutLove.Carverisoneofthemostcelebratedshort-storywritersinAmericanliterature—hisstyleisbothinstantlyrecognizableandhugelyinfluential—andthepiecesinWhatWeTalkAbout...,whichportraythegrittylovesandlivesoftheAmericanworkingclass,arecountedamongthefoundationstonesofthecontemporaryshortstory.Inthisuneditedtext,wegaininsightintotheprocessofagreatwriter.TheseexpansivestoriesilluminatethemanydimensionsofCarver’sstyle,andareindispensabletoourunderstandingofhislegacy.TextestablishedbyWilliamL.StullandMaureenP.Carroll 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 August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.
William L. Stull is a professor of English at the University of Hartford. Maureen P. Carroll is an adjunct professor of humanities at the University of Hartford and a practicing attorney. For more than two decades, they have published numerous essays and books on the work of Raymond Carver. Editors' Preface xi
Why Don't You Dance? 3
Viewfinder 9
Where Is Everyone? 13
Gazebo 24
Want to See Something 33
The Fling 40
A Small, Good Thing 56
Tell the Women We're Going 83
If It Please You 97
So Much Water So Close to Home 116
Dummy 136
Pie 153
The Calm 161
Mine 167
Distance 169
Beginners 179
One More Thing 201
A Note on the Text 207
内容简介:
HereistheoriginalmanuscriptofRaymondCarver’sseminal1981collection,WhatWeTalkAboutWhenWeTalkAboutLove.Carverisoneofthemostcelebratedshort-storywritersinAmericanliterature—hisstyleisbothinstantlyrecognizableandhugelyinfluential—andthepiecesinWhatWeTalkAbout...,whichportraythegrittylovesandlivesoftheAmericanworkingclass,arecountedamongthefoundationstonesofthecontemporaryshortstory.Inthisuneditedtext,wegaininsightintotheprocessofagreatwriter.TheseexpansivestoriesilluminatethemanydimensionsofCarver’sstyle,andareindispensabletoourunderstandingofhislegacy.TextestablishedbyWilliamL.StullandMaureenP.Carroll
作者简介:
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 August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.
William L. Stull is a professor of English at the University of Hartford. Maureen P. Carroll is an adjunct professor of humanities at the University of Hartford and a practicing attorney. For more than two decades, they have published numerous essays and books on the work of Raymond Carver.
目录:
Editors' Preface xi
Why Don't You Dance? 3
Viewfinder 9
Where Is Everyone? 13
Gazebo 24
Want to See Something 33
The Fling 40
A Small, Good Thing 56
Tell the Women We're Going 83
If It Please You 97
So Much Water So Close to Home 116
Dummy 136
Pie 153
The Calm 161
Mine 167
Distance 169
Beginners 179
One More Thing 201
A Note on the Text 207