Raymond Carver
126 pages
Paperback
To celebrate the exhibition The Bough Breaks at Camden Art Centre, we offer Matthew Krishanu's reading list exclusively selected by the artist.
These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.