First published 1997
In these tightly-crafted tales, Raymond Carver's characters confront the limits of their lives - a couple's tense dinner party, a man struggling with an unexpected legacy, a woman grappling with the loss of her husband. Yet within the mundane, Carver illuminates the quiet emotional depths that define the human experience. His spare, unsentimental style captures the poignancy of everyday existence, where beauty and sorrow intertwine.
Genres: short-stories, literary-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, adult-fiction
Vibes: emotional, intimate, poignant, unsentimental
Tropes: character-study, quiet-drama
Period: 20th-Century
134 pages · Paperback · Harvill Pr