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Classical in form, spare, intimate and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Raymond Carver
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), McGraw-Hill Companies, McGraw-Hill
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780099449898
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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 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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