Carver, Raymond.
Summary: A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. Spans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarver, Raymond.
Contents: Will you please be quiet, please? -- Fat -- Neighbors -- The idea -- They're not your husband -- Are you a doctor? -- The father -- Nobody said anything -- Sixty acres -- What's in Alaska? -- Night school -- Collectors -- What do you do in San Francisco? -- The student's wife -- Put yourself in my shoes -- Jerry and Molly and Sam -- Why, Honey? -- The ducks -- How about this? -- Bicycles,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarver, Raymond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CARCarver, Raymond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSummary: A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JINSummary: Nick, a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the worst day of his life. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line, or, rather, on the lawn, as he moves himself and all his possessions to his front yard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Everything 2011Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF EvContents: Night the ghost got in / James Thurber ; read by Isaiah Sheffer (11:50) -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton ; read by Maria Tucci (23:12) -- Mak westing / Jack London ; read by Steven Gilborn (19:41) -- Rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence ; read by John Shea (38:11) -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson ; read by Marian Seldes (21:21) -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; read by Charles Keating...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELSummary: While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004