Raymond Carver: Beginners [2010] paperback TRAVL John Romer conveys to the

John Romer conveys to the reader a remarkable sense of how to understand a people so like ourselves and yet in so many ways eerily different

the past is never far away in this twisty thriller where nothing is quite as it seems

Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult

This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol

Raymond Carver: Beginners [2010] paperback TRAVL John Romer conveys to theWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians 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 reveals what was previously unsaid, filling in the narrative silences that have both inspired