Raymond Carver Collected Stories The Library of America 2009 3rd Printing w/Slipcase New Raymond Carver’s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ’80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents. #RaymondCarver#Cathedral#TheLibraryofAmerica#vintagebooks#bookstore