Will You Please Be Quiet, Please

"Carver has made himself the natural successor to his true mentor, Chekhov" - Financial Times

"He is alert to the unique, inconspicuous incident, when a life or a marriage may change course decisively" - Sunday Telegraph

"Carver's stories celebrate some lasting aspects of the human condition, however minimal, conjuring up a quality of fellow feeling which gives the stories a compelling, dry-eyed poignancy, a melancholy but intensely moving authenticity" - William Boyd Daily Telegraph

"There is nobody else like him. In some ways his pared-down style is an extreme development of the Hemingway style, but Carver writes about women and the ways men relate to them far more convincingly than Hemingway ever did" - Frank Kermode

"Carver is a master of the clear, sharp, resonant detail" - Daily Telegraph

The American Chekhov' - Sunday Times