Raymond Carver in his own words

The Irish Times | October 31, 2009 | Copyright

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 makes the world over according to his own specifications. It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes."

Carver's insight certainly helps explain the art of fiction, but his clarity here renders all the more bizarre his unhappy, yet apparent acceptance, of the radical editing, ...

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