Raymond Carver is a classic of 20th century American literature, an outstanding master of the short form, a successor to Hemingway, Faulkner, and Chekhov. He was called a minimalist and a "dirty realist", however, "his stories always contain a unique strangeness, echoes of myth" (Los Angeles Times). He received the O. Henry Award several times, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Robert Altman adapted his stories into the film "Short Cuts" (starring Andie MacDowell, Jack Lemmon, Julianne Moore, Robert Downey Jr., Tim Robbins, Tom Waits), which won the "Golden Lion" at the Venice Film Festival. The plot of the Oscar-winning film "Birdman" by Alejandro González Iñárritu (starring Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts), shot in one continuous take, revolves around bringing Carver's story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" to the Broadway stage. This edition contains the author's collection "Cathedral", new stories from the book "Where I'm Calling From" — an anthology of the new and best prose of the master — and a number of additional materials; most stories are published in Russian for the first time or in new translations, while the others are presented in a new editing.
"Carver's America is clouded by the loss of dreams and pain, but it is not as fragile as it may seem at first glance. Personal catastrophe for his heroes is the norm of life" (The New York Times Book Review).
