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Raymond Carver

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born
May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, The United States

died
August 02, 1988

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry

influences
John Gardner, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams...more


About this author

Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. The son of a violent alcoholic, he married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit'. A career that would eventually kill him. Constantly struggling to support his wife and family Carver enrolled in a writing programme under author John Gardner in 1958 and he saw this as a turning point.
Rejecting the more experimental fiction of the 60s and 70s, he pioneered a precisionist realism reinventing the American short story during the eighties, heading the line of so-called 'dirty realists' or 'K-mart realists'. Set in trailer parks and shopping malls they are stories of banal lives that turn on a seeminlgy...more


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Books by Raymond Carver

Average rating: 4.27 · 31,082 ratings · 2,177 reviews · 112 distinct works
What We Talk About When We Tal...
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 8,075 ratings — published 1981 — 28 editions
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Where I'm Calling From: New an...
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 6,180 ratings — published 1983 — 15 editions
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Cathedral
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 5,487 ratings — published 1983 — 30 editions
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Plea...
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 2,926 ratings — published 1976 — 17 editions
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 1,635 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions
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Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 583 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 615 ratings — 7 editions
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All of Us: The Collected Poems
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 565 ratings — 4 editions
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Collected Stories
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4.62 of 5 stars 4.62 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 2009
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A New Path to the Waterfall
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Quotes by Raymond Carver

“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”
― Raymond Carver
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“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
― Raymond Carver
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“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
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