| Conversations with Raymond Carver Contributor(s): Gentry, Marshall Bruce (Editor), Stull, William L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0878054499 ISBN-13: 9780878054497 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1990 Annotation: This collection of Raymond Carvers interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent of realistic fiction in the wake of postmodern formalism. The twenty-five conversations gathered here, several available in English for the first time, include craft interviews, biographical portraits, self-analyses, and wide-ranging reflections on the current literary scene. Carver discusses his changing views of his widely influential fiction collections "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), Cathedral (1983), and Where Im Calling From (1988). Carver explains how at the height of his fame as a fiction writer he turned to poetry, producing three prize-winning books in as many years. Finally, in the closing months of his life, he talks about the coming of his last triumphant stories, the ones that secured his reputation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Collections | Interviews |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 90-12522 |
| Series: Literary Conversations |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.2" W x 9.06" (0.97 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent of realistic fiction in the wake of postmodern formalism. The twenty-five conversations gathered here, several available in English for the first time, include craft interviews, biographical portraits, self-analyses, and wide-ranging reflections on the current literary scene. Carver discusses his changing views of his widely influential fiction collections What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), Cathedral (1983), and Where I'm Calling From (1988). Carver explains how at the height of his fame as a fiction writer he turned to poetry, producing three prize-winning books in as many years. Finally, in the closing months of his life, he talks about the coming of his last triumphant stories, the ones that secured his reputation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gentry, Marshall Bruce: - Marshall Bruce Gentry is author of Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque and coeditor (with William L. Stull) of Conversations with Raymond Carver, both published by University Press of Mississippi.Stull, William L.: - William L. Stull is coeditor (with Marshall Bruce Gentry) of Conversations with Raymond Carver, published by University Press of Mississippi. |