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Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River, and grew up in Yakima, Washington, the son of Ella Beatrice Carter (née Casey) and Clevie Raymond Carver. [4] His father, a sawmill worker from Arkansas , was a fisherman and a heavy drinker.
Additionally, Carver had accepted an advance on an unwritten novel from McGraw-Hill and planned to write a novel he imagined as "an African Queen sort of thing" set in German East Africa after World War I. [2] Carver later admitted he stopped working on the novel after two weeks, and it appears that nothing of it exists beyond the published ...
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) was the first major-press short-story collection by American writer Raymond Carver.Described by contemporary critics as a foundational text of minimalist fiction, its stories offered an incisive and influential telling of disenchantment in the mid-century American working class.
The American writer, Raymond Carver, who survived alcoholism to write some of the most beautiful poems about grief, and happiness, left a short poem before he died from cancer, aged just 50.
Carver's widow, Tess Gallagher, fought with Knopf for permission to republish the 17 stories in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love as they were originally written by Carver. [5] These original versions eventually appeared in Beginners, published by Jonathan Cape in 2009, and in the Library of America volume Collected Stories. [6]
"Why Don't You Dance?" is a short story by American author Raymond Carver. It was published in the Spring 1981 edition of The Paris Review and that same year in the short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver. The film is set in Los Angeles, in contrast to the original Pacific Northwest backdrop of Carver's stories. Short Cuts traces the actions of 22 principal characters, both in parallel and at occasional loose points of connection.
After writing "Errand", the last story in the book, Carver was diagnosed with lung cancer. He underwent surgery in October 1987 in Syracuse, New York, where doctors removed two-thirds of his left lung. [6] When the cancer returned in his brain in March 1988, Carver underwent a seven-week course of radiation therapy from April to May. [2]