Short Cuts : Selected Stories

Carver, Raymond; Altman, Robert

ISBN 10: 0679748644 / ISBN 13: 9780679748649

Published by Vintage, New York, 1993

About this Item

1st Edition/1st Printing trade-size softcover original. 157p. Introduction by Robert Altman. SIGNED by director of film adaptation Robert Altman on bookplate on inside cover. Also includes laid-in is a photo-postcard SIGNED by Matthew Modine (played Dr. Ralph Wyman). Several original reviews and articles laid-in concerning 'Short Cuts' and Robert Altman film. Also includes laid-in the original obituaries for Altman from New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today. Seller Inventory # 000875

Bibliographic Details

Title: Short Cuts : Selected Stories

Publisher: Vintage, New York

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Signed: SIGNED

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

From “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss—and formed the basis for the film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman.

With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of “one of the true contemporary masters” (The New York Review of Books).

Features stories from the collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Where I’m Calling From, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and A New Path to the Waterfall; including an introduction by Robert Altman.

About the Author:

RAYMOND CARVER was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.