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Short Cuts: Selected Stories
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Susie
Jan 09, 2008 rated it liked it
Carver's short stories are interesting and realistic. Some of the events are easy to relate to, they depict personal relationship problems and choices that sound familiar. The one story about the fishermen who find a dead body but continue their fishing trip because they are 1)die-hard fishing buddies and 2)she's already dead, is very eerie. Like "the fish that got away" stories, you never fully trust that account of what happened. I feel the characters are a little one dimensional, but the conv ...more
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