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Raymond Carver was born on May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, United States. The son of Clevie Raymond and Ella Beatrice (Casey) Carver.
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By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form. Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver's life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.
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(Raymond Carver?s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and...)
Raymond Carver?s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ?80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents. Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful for what is left unsaid, Carver?s stories were held up as exemplars of a new school in American fiction known as minimalism or ?dirty realism,? a movement whose wide influence continues to this day. Carver?s stories were brilliant in their detachment and use of the oblique, ambiguous gesture, yet there were signs of a different sort of sensibility at work. In books such as Cathedral and the later tales included in the collected stories volume Where I?m Calling From, Carver revealed himself to be a more expansive writer than in the earlier published books, displaying Chekhovian sympathies toward his characters and relying less on elliptical effects. In gathering all of Carver?s stories, including early sketches and posthumously discovered works, The Library of America?s Collected Stories provides a comprehensive overview of Carver?s career as we have come to know it: the promise of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and the breakthrough of What We Talk About, on through the departures taken in Cathedral and the pathos of the late stories. But it also prompts a fresh consideration of Carver by presenting Beginners, an edition of the manuscript of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love that Carver submitted to Gordon Lish, his editor and a crucial influence on his development. Lish?s editing was so extensive that at one point Carver wrote him an anguished letter asking him not to publish the book; now, for the first time, readers can read both the manuscript and published versions of the collection that established Carver as a major American writer. Offering a fascinating window into the complex, fraught relation between writer and editor, Beginners expands our sense of Carver and is essential reading for anyone who cares about his achievement.
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This highly Acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. With a bias toward realism editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that tells a storyand tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether its the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Mansons Shiloh, or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubuss The Fat Girl, the 36 works included her probe issues that give us that shock of recognition that is the hallmark of great artwonderful, absorbing fiction that will be read and reread for decades to come.
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Raymond Carver was born on May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, United States. The son of Clevie Raymond and Ella Beatrice (Casey) Carver.
Raymond Carver received a Bachelor of Arts from Humboldt State University, 1963; a Master of Fine Arts, U. Iowa, 1966; a Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Hartford, 1988.
Raymond Carver was a lecturer of creative writing at University of California, Santa Cruz, 1971-1972; visiting Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1973; visiting lecturer, Writers' Workshop, U. Iowa, 1973-1974; member of faculty writing program, Goddard College, 1977-1978; visiting distinguished writer, University Texas, El Paso, 1978-1979; Professor of English, Syracuse (New York) U., 1980-1983.
(By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver ha...)
(Raymond Carver?s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and...)
(This highly Acclaimed collection of short stories by Amer...)
Raymond Carver was married to Maryann Burk but they divorced. They had two children, Christine LaRae and Vance Lindsay. His second marriage was to Tess Gallagher.