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Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? , in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure ...
- Short story, poetry
- Writer
- American
Raymond Carver (born May 25, 1938, Clatskanie, Oregon, U.S.—died August 2, 1988, Port Angeles, Washington) was an American short-story writer and poet whose realistic writings about the working poor mirrored his own life. Carver was the son of a sawmill worker.
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Learn about the life and works of Raymond Carver, a poet and short-story writer who captured the desperation of the working class in his stories and poems. Explore his biography, awards, collections, and themes of breaking from confines, violence, and love.
Nov 19, 2009 · Nov. 19, 2009. Raymond Carver, surely the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century, makes an early appearance in Carol Sklenicka’s exhaustive and...
As he feels the baby slipping from his grasp, he pulls back. The narrator tells us that the ‘issue was decided’ in ‘this manner’. Analysis. ‘Popular Mechanics’ ends on an ambiguous note, with Carver’s masterly use of an almost bland bureaucratic turn of phrase (‘manner’, ‘issue’, ‘decided’) belying the possibly dark ...
Raymond Carver Average rating: 4.14 · 192,328 ratings · 14,777 reviews · 318 distinct works • Similar authors What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Learn about the life and work of Raymond Carver, a influential American short story writer and poet who revived the form in the 1980s. Find out how he overcame his alcoholism, met his wife Tess Gallagher, and wrote his final books of stories and poetry.
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