Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Authors: Carver, Raymond
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC004000, FIC029000
ISBN: 9781101970614, Related ISBNs: 0679735690, 1101970618, 9780679735694, 9781101970614
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 272,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.

"[Carver's stories] can ... be counted among the masterpieces of American Literature." --The New York Times Book Review

"One of the great short story writers of our time--of any time." --The  Philadelhpia Inquirer

"The whole collection is a knock out. Few wriers can match Raymond Carver's entiwining style and language." --The Dallas Morning News 

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