Elephant
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Nov '09
Should be back in stock very soon
'Elephant is superb and suggests how much he still had to give' Ian McEwan
Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.
Carver's stories celebrate some lasting aspects of the human condition, however minimal, conjuring up a quality of fellow feeling, which gives the stories a compelling, dry-eyed poignancy, a melancholy but intensely moving authenticity -- William Boyd * Daily Telegraph *
This dazzling little collection is a treat * Guardian *
All the stories in this collection are superb. Each sucks the reader, with magical speed, into the hearts of the characters, while seeming to say almost nothing about them. And they are not always gloomy, these hearts * Independent *
A collection of stories it would be hard to forget -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times *
ISBN: 9780099530350
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 9mm
Weight: 97g
128 pages