- Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Short stories, american, Ps3553.a7894 w43 1988
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.
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- Author
- Raymond Carver
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 412
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Vintage Books, Atlantic Monthly Pr
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780517382134
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“I could hear them out in the kitchen.”
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 in the literary world. It was followed by *Cathedral* (1983), which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. The definitive collection of his stories, *Where I'm Calling From,* was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The
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