SO MUCH WATER SO CLOSE TO HOME
Originally appearing in the book Furious Seasons in 1977, So Much Water So Close to
Home is typical of the work of Raymond Carver, whose career was dedicated to short stories and poetry. Carver’s writing style and themes – blue-collar life, alcoholism and poverty – are often linked to Hemingway and Chekhov. Carver honed his minimalist style, striving to use five words where others might use 15. Viewers may recognise So Much Water So Close to Home as one of the overlapping narratives of Robert Altman’s SHORT CUTS, a sweeping panorama of quiet desperation informed by various Carver shorts.
So Much Water So Close to Home can be found in the below book of short stories -
Where I’m Calling From - The Selected Stories by Raymond Carver.
The stories in Where I’m Calling From are selected from the full range of the author’s work and include Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, Cathedral and So Much Water So Close to Home on which the film Jindabyne is based.
Where I’m Calling from, with the author’s original introduction, is the essential Raymond Carver story collection.
“The American Chekhov” Sunday Times
“The master craftsman of the modern American short story” Daily Telegraph
“One of America’s most original, truest voices…Raymond Carver was a great writer…Read everything Carver wrote” Salman Rushdie
