Raymond Carver: Collected Stories

1038 Pages·2009·16.6 MB·English

by  Raymond Carver

RAYMOND CARVER

RAYMOND CARVER
COLLECTED STORIES
THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright © 2009 by
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y.
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, "Pastoral," "Furious Seasons," "The Lie,"
"The Cabin," "Harry's Death," and "The Pheasant" copyright © 1963,
1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975,
1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, renewed 1991
by Tess Gallagher. Reprinted by permission of
Tess Gallagher and the Wylie Agency, Inc.
Beginners copyright © 2009 by Tess Gallagher. Reprinted by permission
of Tess Gallagher and the Wylie Agency. Originally published in
different form by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.,
in r98r. "Beginners" first appeared in The New Yorker.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Cathedral copyright
© 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 by Raymond Carver. "The
Hair," "The Aficionados," "Poseidon and Company," "Bright Red
Apples," from "The Augustine Notebooks," "Kindling," "What
Would You Like To See?," "Dreams," "Vandals," "Call If You
Need Me," "My Father's Life," "Fires," "On Writing," and
"Introduction to Where I'm Calling From (Franklin Library
Edition)" copyright © 2000 by Tess Gallagher. Published
by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, a division of
Random House, Inc.
"Boxes," "Whoever Was Using This Bed," "Intimacy," "Menudo,"
"Elephant," "Blackbird Pie," and "Errand," copyright© 1986,
1987, 1988 by Raymond Carver. Reprinted by permission of
Grove/A tlantic, Inc.
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WROTE THE CHRONOLOGY, BIBLIOGRAPHY,
NOTE ON THE TEXTS, AND NOTES
AND EDITED THE TEXT OF "BEGINNERS"

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Contents
WILL You PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE?
Fat 3
Neighbors 8
The Idea 14
They're Not Your Husband 18
Are You a Doctor? 25
The Father 33
Nobody Said Anything 35
Sixty Acres 4-9
What's in Alaska? 60
Night School 72
Collectors 78
What Do You Do in San Francisco? 85
The Student's Wife 93
Put Yourself in My Shoes 101
Jerry and Molly and Sam 116
Why, Honey? 129
The Ducks 134
How About This? 140
Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarets 147
What Is It? 157
Signals 165
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 171
from FURIOUS SEASONS AND OTHER STORIES
Pastoral 193
Furious Seasons 205
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE
Why Don't You Dance? 223
Viewfinder 228
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit 231
Gazebo 234
I Could See the Smallest Things 240
Sacks 24-4-
The Bath 251
Tell the Women We're Going 258
After the Denim 265