Just be quiet already, finally. What we talk about when we talk about love

Raymond Carver is a classic of American literature of the 20th century, an outstanding master of the short form, a heir to Hemingway, Faulkner, and Chekhov. He was called a minimalist and a 'dirty realist,' however, 'there is always a... unique strangeness, echoes of myth' in his stories (Los Angeles Times). He received the O. Henry Award multiple 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, and Tom Waits), which won the 'Golden Lion' at the Venice Film Festival, while the plot of the Oscar-winning 'Birdman' by Alejandro González Iñárritu (starring Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts) is built around transferring Carver's story 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' to the Broadway stage. This edition includes two complete author collections of the master and several additional materials; most of the stories are published in Russian for the first time or in new translations, while the others are in a new edition. '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).