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The first paperback edition of Carver's poems, which brings together )Fires, Where The Water Comes Together With Other Water, Ultramarine, New Path To The Waterfall( and )No Heroics, Please(.

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A new collection of pieces by Raymond Carver, combining short fiction, essays, commentary on his own fiction and poetry, and writing on the work of esteemed contemporaries such as Richard Brautigan, Jim Harrison and Richard Ford.

Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing life,

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to come second to earning a living for his young family. Despite, small-press publication, it was not until Will You Please Be Quiet Please? appeared in 1976 that his work began to reach a wider audience. This was the year in which he gave up alcohol, which had contributed ...

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Anche se sono stati i racconti a renderlo celebre, Raymond Carver ha sempre alternato alla prosa la poesia, con risultati di pari perfezione, al punto che l'autore si considerava prima poeta e poi narratore. Questa raccolta completa dei suoi versi offre una visione totale di quella che è stata definita «l'altra musa» di Carver. Dalle prime poesie di "Voi non sapete che cos'è l'amore" (1983) all'opera matura di "Racconti in forma di poesia" (19...

Raymond Carver, der Meister der US-Short-Story, schrieb auch eine handvoll Gedichtbände. "Gorki unterm Aschenbecher" ist eine Auswahl seiner besten Gedichte, die wie "Verkehrsunfälle" oder wundersame Fluchten sind."Kein anderer kann in aller Kürze so vielfältig schreiben und so umfassend wie Raymond Carver". - The New York Times Book Review

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, BEGINNERS - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reveal what was previously unsaid, filling in the narrative silences that h...

FICTION / General

One of Raymond Carver's final collections of poetry, moving from the beauty of the natural world to thoughts of mortality and family and art. Throughout, Carver "has the astonished, chastened voice of a person who has survived a wreck, as surprised that he had a life before it as that he has one afterward, willing to remember both sides" (The New York Times Book Review).

A popular book on Arthritis. How to understand this illness and useful advices on diets and healthy habits. Basen on the author' s own experience.

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AMERICAN NARRATIVE, SHORT STORIES OF COMMON PEOPLE

This book shows how couples that destroy themselves, friends who look insanely for adventure and sons that try to communicate with their parents...an unfair, intense and violent universe.