Raymond Carver
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born
May 25, 1938
died
August 02, 1988
gender
male
place of birth
Clatskanie, Oregon, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction
influences
John Gardner, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Flannery O'Connor, James Salter, Isaac Babel, Frank O'Connor
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver avg rating 4.35 — 4,086 ratings — published 1972 13 editions |
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver avg rating 4.44 — 3,353 ratings — published 1983 15 editions |
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Cathedral by Raymond Carver avg rating 4.42 — 2,718 ratings — published 1983 18 editions |
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver avg rating 4.38 — 1,347 ratings — published 1976 12 editions |
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver avg rating 4.07 — 1,012 ratings — published 1993 8 editions |
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Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose by Raymond Carver avg rating 3.99 — 372 ratings — published 2000 6 editions |
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Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories by Raymond Carver avg rating 4.07 — 350 ratings — published 1983 9 editions |
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All of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver avg rating 4.17 — 327 ratings — published 1996 4 editions |
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A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver avg rating 4.11 — 204 ratings — published 1989 5 editions |
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Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems by Raymond Carver avg rating 4.04 — 183 ratings — published 1985 4 editions |
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"And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth. "
— Raymond Carver
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth. "
— 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
— Raymond Carver
tags:
love
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"That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones."
— Raymond Carver
— Raymond Carver
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writing
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