Books : Elephant and Other Stories
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by: Raymond Carver
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099449867
ISBN: 0099449862
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: September 04, 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Sales Rank: 1155594
Studio: Vintage
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Rating:  - Very Good Carver Collection
If you haven't read Raymond Carver before, this is probably the wrong book with which you should start. His stories "Cathedral", "Nobody Said Anything", and "Where I'm Calling From" (to name just a few of my favorites) represent his best work; the stories contained in "Elephant" do not. Although "Intimacy" and "Blackbird Pie" are two very strong stories in "Elephant", I would reach back further if you truly want to enjoy Carver at his best. This book is really only worth the money if you are a Carver ... Read More
Rating:  - Carver is no Chekhov.
What I can't understand is not the revered tedium of Raymond Carver, but how Robert Altman managed to use this sterile material to create one of the great, rich tragicomic masterpieces of the last twenty years. The closing story here, about the death of Chekhov, is an attempt to extend his range, but the flat biographical style, the phoney insertions of 'meaningful' details and 'significant' events, the clumsy gropings for understated emotion, are quite intolerable.
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