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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Beginners
- ISBN
- 0224089293
- EAN
- 9780224089296
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Date of Publication
- 2009-10-01
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Release Title
- Beginners
- Artist
- Carver, Raymond
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Beginners
- Item Height
- 212 mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Topic
- Short Stories
- Item Weight
- 280 g
- Item Width
- 137 mm
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Tim O Brien once said of Raymond Carver, he uses the English language like a whittler s knife, carving stark and unadorned prose-objects, paring away everything but the very core of human emotion .Beginners is Carver s most famous collection of short stories What We Talk About When We Talk About Love before this whittling process had begun.It is the unedited version of the masterpiece which would be cut by almost fifty percent by Carver s editor and mentor, Gordon Lish, before its original publication in 1981 and which would go on to become one of the most influential pieces of modern literature. arver s preoccupation with the marrow of things is just as present in these longer stories. A young girl, dancing with her lover amidst the debris of an older man s life, has her first forewarning of the dangers of adulthood, and is filled with an unbearable happiness .A man and woman lock themselves in a motel room and slowly, painfully, acknowledge the end of a relationship, while somewhere else in the lonely Midwest a man is photographed over and over again as he attempts to locate himself in a world that seems utterly without focus. But as we move through the manifold little tr
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780224089296
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90971980
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Short Stories
Book Title
Beginners
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
212 mm
Item Weight
280 g
Item Width
137 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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