Elephant And Other Stories - Softcover

Carver, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860461018 ISBN 13: 9781860461019

Publisher: Harvill, 1989

Synopsis

The last collection of stories written by Raymond Carver before his death.

About this title

About the Author

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to come second to earning a living for his young family. Despite, small-press publication, it was not until Will You Please Be Quiet Please? appeared in 1976 that his work began to reach a wider audience. This was the year in which he gave up alcohol, which had contributed to the collapse of his marriage. In 1977 he met the writer Tess Gallagher, with whom he shared the last eleven years of his life. During this prolific period he wrote three collections of stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral and Elephant. Fires, a collection of essays, poems and stories, appeared in 1985, followed by three further collections of poetry. In 1988 he completed the poetry collection A New Path to the Waterfall.

Review

'Elephant is superb and suggests how much he still had to give' Ian McEwan

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvill
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860461018
• ISBN 13: 9781860461019
• Binding: Paperback