Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 05/11/2009
ISBN: 9780099530367
Length: 208 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 149g
RRP: £8.99
Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing life; fifty poems, many of them not collected elsewhere; and seven stories, including three from the early collection Furious Seasons.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 05/11/2009
ISBN: 9780099530367
Length: 208 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 149g
RRP: £8.99
Carver is a master; his stories are word perfect. His sentences stalk out meaning, following a trail of clues with patient care and painful anticipation. Fires [is] an indispensable volume and provides further proof of Carver's stature as a major American writer
These stories are perfect in pitch and tone. However harrowing their subject, or broken their characters, all of them revive one's faith in the redemptive power of straight story-telling
Carver's poetry is non-metrical, free as prose... It works well and reads beautifully