Bokelskere.no

These nine stories and a poem will be known to readers of Carver from his earlier collections, but according to the director Robert Altman, they inspired the plot of his own film "Short Cuts" in 1993. Some of the stories are cut to the bone so much that they make little impression, but the two longer stories on how to relate to death (So Much Water So Close To Home; A Small, Good Thing) are harrowing and belong to my favorites. The introduction by Altman gives useful insights on how these spare stories made it into a movie that I enjoyed at the time.