{"title":"Raymond Carver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaymond Carver\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a powerful exploration of everyday lives through his masterful short stories. His prose is spare yet deeply evocative, revealing the silent struggles and fleeting moments that shape human relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect intimate portraits of love, loss, and the ordinary, crafted with precision and emotional clarity. Carver’s work stands as a cornerstone of contemporary American fiction that resonates across cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"where-im-calling-from-by-raymond-carver-9780679722311","title":"Where I'm Calling From","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe final story collection from \"one of the great short story writers of our time\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e) features classic stories from \u003cem\u003eCathedral\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love\u003c\/em\u003e, and earlier volumes. \"Among the masterpieces of American fiction.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere I'm Calling From\u003c\/em\u003e, his last collection, includes seven new works previously unpublished in book form. Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver's life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46071804035308,"sku":"9780679722311","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780679722311.jpg?v=1736066120"},{"product_id":"what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-love-by-raymond-carver-9780099530329","title":"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe short story that inspired the play at the heart of \u003cem\u003eBirdman\u003c\/em\u003e starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish, and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46216010662124,"sku":"9780099530329","price":22.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780099530329.jpg?v=1740531834"},{"product_id":"will-you-please-be-quiet-please-by-raymond-carver-9780099530343","title":"Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe American Chekhov\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46267611971820,"sku":"9780099530343","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780099530343.jpg?v=1742161420"},{"product_id":"cathedral-by-raymond-carver-9780099530336","title":"Cathedral","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'All the stories in \u003cem\u003eCathedral\u003c\/em\u003e are different; some funny, some hauntingly sad. Each has its own individual and curious power' \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic;\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRaymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of \u003cem\u003eCathedral\u003c\/em\u003e in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see. Many view this story, and indeed this collection, as a watershed in the maturing of Carver's work to a more confidently poetic style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46271905235180,"sku":"9780099530336","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780099530336.jpg?v=1742262079"},{"product_id":"fires-by-raymond-carver-9780099530367","title":"Fires","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Here is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty, utterly free of pretence. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart’ \u003cem\u003eJonathan Yardley, Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFires\u003c\/em\u003e is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. 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