Short cuts (engelsk)

This collection of nine short stories and a poem inspired the 1993 comedy-drama directed by Robert Altman. Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938 but it was not until the 1981 publication of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love that he began to achieve real literary fame. This collection was edited by more than 40 per cent before publication, and Carver dedicated it to his fellow writer and future wife, Tess Gallagher, with the promise that he would one day republish his stories at full length.