and felt like comparing and contrasting the originals (tidied)
with the ruthless Lish edits
BUT the Library of America volume has the originals and the edits
so why not buy that? It's quality paper and has ALL of Carver's prose
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I almost bought "Beginners" by RC today
and felt like comparing and contrasting the originals (tidied) with the ruthless Lish edits BUT the Library of America volume has the originals and the edits so why not buy that? It's quality paper and has ALL of Carver's prose
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It would certainly be a interesting exercise
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JUST ORDERED THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA VERSION
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We ought to have a Carver Week at the Chapel
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I've just started working my way through the comparison between
Carver's original stories ("Beginners") and Gordon Lish's (horrible) edits. Basically Lish hacked to death a beautiful story (A Small Good Thing) and produced a horrible, cold flash (The Bath) without any of the humanity of ASGT I took a look at another, the one about a terrible rape-murder. When I read (what I thought was) the Carver story here I was bitterly disappointed. Now I have read the CARVER version (not the Lish-butchered version) I feel happier. These aren't "edits" by any realistic measure. They are total rewrites which removed the heart soul and guts from the originals
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