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Raymond Carver
Carver, Raymond
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Carver, Raymond (1939–89), born in Clatskanie, Ore., married at 18, supported two children by working evenings while studying at Chico State College in California, where he was inspired by John Gardner's creative writing class. Carver spent a year at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, then returned to California, where he worked as janitor, waiter, and gas station attendant to provide for his family while writing in his spare time. His first collection of short stories,
Will You Be Quiet, Please? (1976), was nominated for a National Book Award. Another collection,
Furious Seasons, followed in 1977. Solidly based on felt experience, his spare stories honor and articulate the lives of America's working class and poor, as well as sometimes those of the upwardly mobile. He completed four more collections—
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981);
Cathedral (1984);
Fires (1984), a gathering of poems, stories, and essays; and
Where I'm Calling From (1988)—before he died of lung cancer.
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Carver Country: ADAPTING RAYMOND CARVER IN AUSTRALIA
Magazine article from: Metro : Media & Education Magazine; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Carver Country is a book...American writer Raymond Carver's poems...unfaithful. Raymond Carver married Maryann...interest and gave Raymond both a book and...said the grateful Carver. 'SO MUCH WATER...rod in hand - Raymond wades at twilight...
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MEMOIR OF A MARRIAGE; RAYMOND CARVER'S FIRST WIFE DESCRIBES 25 YEARS WITH THE CELEBRATED AUTHOR.(CNY)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 8/20/2006; 700+ words
; ...met 17-year-old Raymond Carver in the summer of 1955. Before...We were such kids," Carver says. "We figured out life...25 years of marriage, the Carvers weathered poverty, separation...vicissitudes of a writer's life. Raymond Carver taught in the creative writing...
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Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography.
Magazine article from: The Oral History Review; 12/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...literary studies. Halpert constructed Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography from transcripts...lived close to short story author, Raymond Carver. The work follows a loosely...thus to create a unique view of Raymond Carver's individual style, both...
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Raymond Carver's American Dreamers
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/15/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...CALLING FROM New and Selected Stories By Raymond Carver Atlantic Monthly Press. 393 pp. $19.95 RAYMOND CARVER has removed himself to a new publisher...the contrary-but that it isn't quite Raymond Carver. Only a few years ago Carver would...
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Editing Carver's Tell the Women We're Going.(Raymond Carver)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...editorial hand (1) on Raymond Carver's second collection...Max's article The Carver Chronicles seems to be...like talking about the Carver period,' he said...and the Short Story: Raymond Carver. Amy Hempel...
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`New' Raymond Carver recycles a lot of `old'
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/14/2001; ; 700+ words
; `New' Raymond Carver recycles a lot of `old...Sunday, January 14, 2001 Raymond Carver fans excited by...Vintage has surely ignored Carver's injunction -- "No...Fiction and Other Prose. By Raymond Carver. Edited by William...
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Voyage around my Carver Fergal Keane has always felt an affinity with the American author Raymond Carver (above). And, finding himself in Carver's home town of Yakima, his thoughts turned to their alcoholic fathers, their struggles for reconciliation - and their hopes for the future
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/8/2000; ; 700+ words
; I came to Raymond Carver through my father. In...The Collected Stories of Raymond Carver. It was the last...of Puget Sound. Raymond Carver loved this landscape of...and lumber mills where Raymond Carver grew up. The Greyhound...
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Raymond Carver in his own words
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 10/31/2009; 700+ words
; ...SHORT STORIES: EILEEN BATTERSBY reviews BeginnersBy Raymond Carver, Cape, 212pp. pound(s)16.99 IN HIS ESSAY, On Writing, the gifted American realist Raymond Carver wrote: "Every great or even every very good writer...
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Raymond carver's "epiphanic moments".
Magazine article from: Style; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Criticism on Raymond Carver is marked by an astonishing...on a specific aspect of Carver's rhetoric that is often...commentators have argued that the Carver-story generally fails...implicit way" (Meyer, Raymond Carver 24), and that...
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Raymond Carver's inheritance from Ernest Hemingway's literary technique.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Hemingway Review; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...for and a significant influence on Raymond Carver, one of America's most important...Drawing most of its evidence from Carver's "Will You Please Be Quiet...complex ways. ********** IF RAYMOND CARVER MODELED HEMINGWAY at the...
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Raymond Carver
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Raymond Carver 1938-88, American short-story writer, b. Clatskanie...Carroll, Remembering Ray: A Composite Biography of Raymond Carver (1993); S. Halpert, ed., Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography (1995); M. B. Carver...
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Carver, Raymond
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Carver, Raymond (1939–88), American short...and At Night the Salmon Move (1976). Carver became best known for his short stories...described in pared down, simple prose. Carver continued to write poetry throughout the...
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Haruki Murakami
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...works from English to Japanese, including those of Raymond Carver , whose stark, vernacular style and pop-culture allusions...When I Talk about Running (2008), riffs on one of Carver's, combines a runner's diary, meditations on writing...
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Altman, Robert
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...Nashville (1975). The Player (1992) enhanced his iconoclastic reputation. Short Cuts (1993), an adaptation of Raymond Carver's short stories, earned him a third nomination. Other films include McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971), The Long...
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Literature: Fiction Trends
Book article from: American Decades
...insightful, well-crafted, and moving works such as Ann Beattie's novel Chilly Scenes in Winter (1976) and Raymond Carver's short-story collection Cathedral (1981). By the 1990s, however, minimalism seemed to have exhausted its...
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