- Manners and customs, Short stories, Fiction, Fiction, general
Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption.
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- Author
- Raymond Carver
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 227
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random House, Czuly Barbarzynca Press, Water Row Press
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- Japanese, Spanish, arm, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781515964544
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“IN 1970, FOR ONE YEAR, Tess Gallagher worked in Seattle-for the Police Department, division of Research and Development.”
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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