Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond CarverWith this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.

McCann was moved by their willingness to share their stories with the world

but one child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep just yet

His name was Joseph

furnishing and practical applications for sewing

now updated to bring our country's story right up to date

Ithaca conjures up a world in which women

Now in his mid-eighties

Will he succeed

filled with action

His mistress

and how they and their neighbours took up guns to fight the British Empire and create an independent Ireland

leading to a compilation of the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane