Robert Altman’s
prize-winning film Short Cuts (1993)
was based on nine short stories and a poem by one of America’s finest fiction
writers, Raymond Carver (1938-1988): ‘Neighbors’, ‘They’re Not Your Husband’,
‘Vitamins’, ‘Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?’, ‘So Much Water So Close to Home’, ‘A
Small, Good Thing’, ‘Jerry and
Molly and Sam’, ‘Collectors’, ‘Tell the Women We’re Going’ and the poem ‘Lemonade’.
The film stars (among many others) Robert Downey
Jr., Andie MacDowell, Matthew Modine, Julianne Moore, and Tim Robbins.
The stories can be found
in Collected Stories (Library of
America, 2009). ‘Lemonade’ is reprinted in All
of Us: The Collected Poems (Harvill Press, 1997).
For an interview with
Carver, go to:
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