A VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES ORIGINAL
A literary event: Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the recently discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death and published here in book form for the first time.
Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires , and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver's mature writing and give his devoted readers a final glimpse of the great writer at work. The pure pleasure of Carver's writing is everywhere in his work, here no less than in those stories that have alreadey entered the canon of modern literature.
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雷蒙德•卡佛(1938—1988),海明威之后美国最伟大的短篇小说家,被尊为简约派文学典范。人生的前一半充满了苦难与失望。失业,酗酒,破产,妻离子散,友人背弃,坠入人生之谷底。晚年文学声名渐高,却罹患肺癌,五十岁便英年早逝。卡佛致力于描绘美国的蓝领生活,是写失败者的失败者,写酒鬼的酒鬼,生活的变质和走投无路后的无望,是他小说中的常态。卡佛的作品风格和他自身经历密切相关,包括极其精简的遣词和冷硬的语言风格。
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友谊至少从一个角度看,就像婚姻,参与者必须对他信任,必须有信念,相信他一定能够持久。
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