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In Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, his first book of short stories, which he wrote and rewrote over fifteen years and which brought him immediate acclaim, Raymond Carver revolutionized the short story form, giving it the proportions of a haiku, without this radical use of ellipsis diminishing its power in any way. On the contrary, Carver's stories possess, perhaps precisely because of their fragmentary nature, an unexpected capacity to provoke a powerful impression, an indelible shock. The seemingly most trivial dramas, the silent catastrophes of the most ordinary people: such is the territory in which Carver's unsettling stories always move.