“Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” by Raymond Carver

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“Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” is Raymond Carver’s debut collection of minimalist short stories that explore the quiet desperation and fractured relationships of ordinary American lives.

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instanceOf book
short story collection
author Raymond Carver NERFINISHED
containsShortStory Are These Actual Miles? NERFINISHED
Are You a Doctor? NERFINISHED
Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes NERFINISHED
Collectors
Fat
Jerry and Molly and Sam NERFINISHED
Neighbors NERFINISHED
Night School NERFINISHED
Night Train NERFINISHED
Nobody Said Anything NERFINISHED
Put Yourself in My Shoes NERFINISHED
Signals NERFINISHED
Sixty Acres NERFINISHED
The Father NERFINISHED
The Idea NERFINISHED
The Student's Wife NERFINISHED
What Do You Do in San Francisco? NERFINISHED
What Is It? NERFINISHED
What's in Alaska?
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
focusesOn fractured relationships
lower-middle-class characters
genre minimalist fiction
short stories
hasNotableStory Fat NERFINISHED
Neighbors NERFINISHED
hasSetting United States NERFINISHED
isDebutWorkOf Raymond Carver NERFINISHED
language English
literaryMovement minimalism
mainTheme alcoholism
communication breakdown
marital breakdown
ordinary American lives
quiet desperation
working-class life
narrativePerspective first-person narration
third-person narration
publicationYear 1976
publisher McGraw-Hill NERFINISHED
styleCharacteristic economical prose
open endings
understated emotion
timePeriodOfSetting mid-20th century

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