Raymond Carver has 9 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Summary
In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Raymond Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one's way through the dark.
©1981 Raymond Carver (P)2017 Tantor
All of Us
Summary
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into discreet moments; a voice of conversational intimacy, and an unstinting sympathy. This complete edition brings together all the poems of Carver's five previous books, from "Fires" to the posthumously published "No Heroics, Please". It also contains a moving introduction by Carver's widow, the poet Tess Gallagher.
©1996 Tess Gallagher (P)2017 Tantor
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Summary
With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story and instantly became both the recognized master of the form and one of our best-loved fiction writers. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.
©1991 Tess Gallagher (P)2017 Tantor
Begyndere
Summary
Raymond Carver udgør den ene halvdel af den måske mest berømte forfatter/forlægger duo. Carver afleverede manuskriptet, til det der skulle blive han store gennembrud, "Hvad vi taler om, når vi taler om kærlighed", til sin redaktør Gordon Lish i 1981. Han blev dog overrasket, da Lish valgte at skære mere end 50 procent af teksten væk. Tilbage stod den hjerteskærende rene minimalisme, der siden har været synonym med forfatterskabet. Raymond Carver lovede sin kone, at han ville udgive novellerne i deres fulde længde på et senere tidspunkt, men han nåede det ikke, før han døde i 1988. Posthumt udkommer nu "Begyndere", der er fuldførelsen af Carvers vision om at udgive sine noveller i deres oprindelige form. De samme knivskarpe analyser af menneskets natur og relationer er der stadig, men der er mere kød på historierne. Det, der tidligere var usagt, bliver nu sagt, og nye lag, nuancer og betydninger åbenbarer sig.
©2018 Gyldendal. Translated by Simon Fruelund (P)2018 Gyldendal
Short Cuts
Summary
The nine stories and one poem in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of "one of the true contemporary masters" (The New York Review of Books).
©1993 Tess Gallagher (P)2017 Tantor
Les vitamines du bonheur
Summary
Les vitamines du bonheur est un recueil de douze nouvelles considéré comme le chef d'œuvre de l'auteur. Il nous fait vivre des tranches de vie intemporelles, loin des clichés du rêve américain. "Tout le monde rêve. Si tu ne rêvais pas, tu deviendrais fou. J’ai lu des trucs là-dessus. C’est une soupape. Les gens rêvent quand ils dorment. Ou alors, ils deviennent dingues. Mais moi, quand je rêve, je rêve de vitamines. Tu comprends ce que je te dis ?"
©1983 Éditions du Seuil (P)2013 Éditions Thélème
Call If You Need Me
Summary
Here, in this book, is Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death. Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver's mature writing and give his devoted fans a final glimpse of the great writer at work. The pure pleasure of Carver's writing is everywhere in his work, here no less than in those stories that have already entered the canon of modern literature.
©2000 Tess Gallagher (P)2017 Tantor
Where I'm Calling From
Summary
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with 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.
©1988 Tess Gallagher (P)2017 Tantor
Cathedral
Summary
This is Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. The 12 stories in Cathedral mark a turning point in Carver's work and "overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life...Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty...his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart" (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World).
©1983 Tess Gallagher (P)2017 Tantor