“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 ⓘ
containsShortStory Are These Actual Miles? ⓘ
Are You a Doctor? ⓘ
Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes ⓘ
Collectors ⓘ
Fat ⓘ
Jerry and Molly and Sam ⓘ
Neighbors ⓘ
Night School ⓘ
Night Train ⓘ
Nobody Said Anything ⓘ
Put Yourself in My Shoes ⓘ
Signals ⓘ
Sixty Acres ⓘ
The Father ⓘ
The Idea ⓘ
The Student's Wife ⓘ
What Do You Do in San Francisco? ⓘ
What Is It? ⓘ
What's in Alaska? ⓘ
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
focusesOn fractured relationships ⓘ
lower-middle-class characters ⓘ
genre minimalist fiction ⓘ
short stories ⓘ
hasNotableStory Fat ⓘ
Neighbors ⓘ
hasSetting United States ⓘ
isDebutWorkOf Raymond Carver ⓘ
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 ⓘ
styleCharacteristic economical prose ⓘ
open endings ⓘ
understated emotion ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting mid-20th century ⓘ

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