"Carver's poetry is like an almost invisible strand of fishing line reeling us all together, connecting us by the heart." -- San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle 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 bibliographical and textual notes on individual poems; a chronology of Carver's life and work; and a moving introduction by Carver's widow, the poet Tess Gallagher.

Synopsis shortly before his death, this was Carver's fourth collection of short fiction. It was nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award Publisher's Note A major collection of Carvers short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. A unique collection by an extraordinary writer, this collection of Carver's best spans his literary career and includes seven new works. Since his untimely death in August of 1988, Raymond Carver's popularity has increased dramatically.

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, "Beginners" - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reveal what was previously unsaid, filling in the narrative silences that have both inspired and mystified readers for so long. "Beginners" is a fascinating insight into the aesthetic of a literary great and, in the questions it raises, may just spark off one of the great cultural debates of our times.

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

【雷蒙德•卡佛：“有朝一日，我必将这些短篇还以原貌，一字不减地重新出版。”】 当年卡佛看到利什对《新手》的二轮修改稿时，曾经写信给利什，说：“我已经放弃了这本书，请采取必要措施停止这本书的出版。”卡佛觉得经过利什大刀霍斧的修改，这部小说集已经成了利什的小说。后来因为一些原因，《新手》还是出版了，但是不仅书名被改成了《当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》，而且原作内容被删改超过50%。在以后的若干年，卡佛的心愿就是将这本被利什修改后的《新手》还以原貌。 卡佛逝世后，他的遗孀苔丝•加拉格尔试图帮助卡佛完成这个夙愿。《新手》原稿现在保留在印第安纳大学的礼来图书馆。通过把利什手写的改动和删减部分之下卡佛所打的字誊写出来，卡佛这些短篇的原本模样得以恢复。 这十七个故事，大多都是围绕人类最永恒的话题，爱情。但是这里面的爱情都是破碎后的状态，基本都是婚外情或者第三者，但是这种婚姻内的出轨（或精神或肉体）卡佛都是点到而止，而非一泻而下的渲染。卡佛刻画了人们在爱情进入婚姻模式，变得日常化后，人面对偶尔（但却不可避免）发生的婚姻外的激情和欲望的刺激时的各种反应。本能在那一时刻犯下的错误造成了一个个破碎的家庭和一段段破碎的爱情，所以卡佛才在《新手》这同名的一篇短篇中，这样说道：在我看来，我们只不过是爱情的新手。这里的“新手”代表了他对自己笔下这些故事精髓的提炼，这是些曾经拥有爱情但没有珍惜失去后才懂得什么是爱（或仍然不懂爱）的“爱情的新手”。对于爱情，我们又真正了解多少呢？这个最初的书名恰恰是最合适的书名。 《新手》并不是要去取代《当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》。相反，它与《谈爱》处于一种对话模式之中。 —— 莎拉•彻奇威尔，《卫报》 从卡佛1988年逝世后，针对他是否是其早期小说的作者一说，谣言四起。卡佛遗孀苔丝•加拉格尔全力支持出版的《新手》则是一种尝试：将卡佛的本原风格全然呈现在读者面前。 ──《每日电讯报》