{"product_id":"will-you-please-be-quiet-please-by-raymond-carver","title":"'Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?' by Raymond Carver","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"448\"\u003eCarver’s first major collection established the stripped-down aesthetic that would later be labelled “minimalism,” though the term never quite captures the emotional density of these stories.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"448\"\u003eMarriages buckle, conversations stall, small humiliations accumulate. The prose is spare without being empty; very much a totem of mid-century American expansiveness. The collection is attentive to working-class interiors—kitchens, motels, rented houses—where disappointment is ordinary and revelation rarely arrives cleanly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"448\"\u003eIt remains a sharp entry point into late–20th-century American short fiction and the economics of silence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44052658389075,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-02-12T154817.670.png?v=1770871714","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/will-you-please-be-quiet-please-by-raymond-carver","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}