The Library of America’s Raymond Carver: Collected Stories offers readers the chance to follow the author through the chronological processing of a major American writer. Although he would eventually republish most of these stories in collections himself-including his first collection Will You be Quiet, Please? which came very close to netting him a National Book Award-it would not be until 2009 that a comprehensive collection covering his entire career would finally see the light of the day. Such was the vaunted accessibility of his stories that he his credits also stretched from Playgirl to the New Yorker. The collected short stories of Raymond Carver are, if they were nothing else, a textbook lesson in the power and promise of minimalism.Ĭarver had, of course, initially published his short fiction in magazines that ranged from nationally known publications like Harper’s Bazaar and Esquire to more regional fare like The Iowa Review and Carolina Quarterly. The style was amply and aptly suited to Carver: he was at the vanguard of a movement seeking to redraw in stark terms the line between short fiction and long fiction which had given rise to new terminology like “novella” and “novelette.” Carver was a proud master of the aesthetic which freely jumped across media, but was perhaps most especially suit to his forte. His reputation as one of the foremost chroniclers of 20th century life in the United States is based almost entirely upon a prodigious output of short stories. Almost unique among American writers inhabiting his sphere of fame and influence, Carver never published a novel.
Raymond Carver died in 1988 at the tragically early age of 50.
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