9781598530469
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories
Raymond Carver
ISBN 13: 9781598530469
Publisher: Library of America
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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Collects legendary and controversial works by the mid-twentieth-century writer including posthumous, unedited, and previously unseen versions, in a comparative anthology that offers insight into the influence of editor Gordon Lish.
Review:
"For the first time, a single volume...offers readers the chance to compare the 'canonical' [Gordon] Lish-edited versions with some of Mr. Carver's manuscript originals....Mr. Lish's editing of the stories improved their pace and concision--frequently at the cost of simply cutting them short or injecting a note of ambiguity....[But] the notes to this collection...have the precision of a formal indictment....There must be few story collections whose footnotes offer more melodrama than the main text."
David Propson, Wall Street Journal, 09/10/2009
Review:"For a Carver loyalist, it's a tough pill to swallow that so much of the bold, bracing impact of the early stories would have been lost without [editor Gordon] Lish, and that much of the apparent arc of Carver's development really was the result of his prose's no longer being cut back so harshly....[but] there's plenty of good work in COLLECTED STORIES that Lish had nothing to do with...."
Dan DeLuca, Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/11/2009
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