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Raymond Carver Biography - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Raymond Carver was an influential American short story writer and poet known for his realistic yet minimalist depictions of middle-class life.
In her groundbreaking biography of Raymond Carver, Carol Sklenicka offers readers an intimate and illuminating portrait of one of America's greatest short story writers. With meticulous research and deep empathy, Sklenicka delves into Carver's tumultuous life, from his troubled childhood to his battles with addiction,
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- Kneeling Down to Look Into a Culvert
- —Robert Bly
- SOMETHING
- The TV showed Chartres Cathedral. Then there was a
A SHORT STORY BY RAYMOND CARVER blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to spend the night. His wife had died. So he was visiting the dead wife’s relatives in Connecticut. He called my wife from his in-laws’. Ar rangements were made. He would come by train, a five- hour trip, and my wife would meet him at the station. She hadn’t se...
I kneel down to peer into a culvert. The other end seems far away. One cone of light floats in the shadowed water. This is how our children will look when we are dead. I kneel near floating shadowy water, watching water flowing in a tunnel- blue sky widens the other end- darkened by the shadowy insides of the steel. Are they all born? I walk on far...
PAGE 25 “Did you have a good train ride?” I said. “Which side of the train did you sit on, by the way?” “What a question, which side!” my wife said. “What’s it matter which side?” she said. “I just asked,” I said. “Right side,” the blind man said. “For the sun. Until this morning,” the blind man said, “I hadn’t been on a train in nearly forty years...
ABOUT THE CHURCH AND THE MIDDLE AGES, narrated by an Englishman, was on the TV. Not your run-of-the-mill TV fare. I wanted to watch something else. I turned to the other channels. But there was nothing on them, either. So I turned back to the first channel and apologized. “Bub, it’s all right,” he said. “It’s fine with me. What ever you want to wat...
PAGE 28 T h e A t l a n t i c M o n t h l y long slow look at Sainte Chapelle. Finally the picture switched to Notre Dame, with its flying buttresses, its spires reaching toward clouds. The camera pulled away to show the whole of the cathedral rising above the sky line. There were times when the Englishman who was tell ing the thing would shut up, ...
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Raymond Carver has become a literary icon for our time. When he died in 1988 at the age of fifty, he was acclaimed as the greatest influence on the American sho...
- Sam Halpert
Examine the life, times, and work of Raymond Carver through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography. Sam Halpert. University of Iowa Press, 1995 - Biography & Autobiography - 196 pages. Raymond Carver has become a literary icon for our time. When he...
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Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and. eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart." -JONATHAN WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD "A few of Mr. Carver's stories can already be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction... shows a gifted writer
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