A Study Guide for Raymond Carver's "Popular Mechanics," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summa

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 auth

The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and compa

A comprehensive examination of the fiction and poetry of Raymond Carver.

"Carver's gifts as a storyteller shine through his poetry" (Los Angeles Times) in this collection that moves from the beauty of the world to thoughts of mortali