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Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? , in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure ...
The Idea may refer to: The Idea, a 1920 wordless novel by Frans Masereel; The Idea, an animated film by Berthold Bartosch based on the Masereel novel "The Idea", a 1976 short story by Raymond Carver from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? "The Idea" a 2022 single by Blackbear from In Loving Memory
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The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
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Carver also selected the contents for the book Syracuse Poems and Stories 1980 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Department of English, Syracuse University, 1980). He also selected, along with Shannon Ravenel, the stories included in The Best American Short Stories 1986 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin , 1986) and edited American Short Story Masterpieces (New York ...
The Best American Short Stories 1988 ; Editor: Shannon Ravenel and Raymond Carver: Language: English: Series: The Best American Short Stories: Published: 1986: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Media type: Print (hardback & paperback) Pages: 325: ISBN: 0395383986: Preceded by: The Best American Short Stories 1985 Followed by: The Best ...
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.