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Raymond Carver by William Shakespeare

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Biography

Name: Raymond Carver
Birth Date: May 25, 1938
Death Date: August 2, 1988
Place of Birth: Clatskanie, Oregon, United States
Place of Death: Port Angeles, Washington, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer, Educator

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Biography of Raymond Carver
5,984 words, approx. 20 pages
"One cannot imagine the late Raymond Carver as a first baseman, or as financier, or as Cromwell's foreign secretary," wrote Lee Oser in World Literature Today. "His writing explores a narrow bandwidth in the spectrum of human life, and his world is a...
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Biography of Raymond Carver
5,152 words, approx. 17 pages
Appreciative of Anne Tyler's description of him as a "spendthrift," Raymond Carver said during an interview with Kasia Boddy (in Conversations with Raymond Carver, 1990), "I think a writer ought to spend himself in whatever he's doing. If a writer...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Carver, Raymond (1938-1988) Summary
175 words, approx. 1 pages
Raymond Carver's success derived as much from the renewed interest in the short story brought about by the publication of The Stories of John Cheever in 1978 and the backlash against 1960s metafiction as it did from Carver's own genius....
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Raymond Carver Information
2,230 words, approx. 7 pages
Raymond Carver RayCarver.jpg}} | Born May 25 1938 ( 1938-05-25 ) Clatskanie, Oregon , United States Died August 2 1988 (aged 50) Port Angeles, Washington , United States Occupation Writer Nationality American Writing period 1958 – 1988 Literary...


News and Journals
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greatreporter.com
Altman, Robert
12/31/2006: 339 words, approx. 1 pages
American filmmaker (b. Feb. 20, 1925, Kansas City, Mo. —d. Nov. 20, 2006, Los Angeles, Calif. ), was an unconventional and independent director whose works emphasized character and atmosphere over plot in exploring themes of innocence, corruption, and survival. Perhaps his best-known film was his...
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The New York Observer
Make Mine Jindabyne!
4/24/2007: 594 words, approx. 2 pages
JINDABYNE Running Time 123 minutes Directed by Ray Lawrence Written by Beatrix Christian Starring Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney In Jindabyne, a suspenseful Australian tale of moral ambiguity based on a Raymond Carver short story, four men on a fishing trip in the picturesque...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Randolph Paul Runyon
19,037 words, approx. 64 pages
In the excerpt below, Runyon examines the connecting elements and recurring themes in the short stories from Cathedral.
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Critical Essay by Arthur M. Saltzman
8,292 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following excerpt, Saltzman compares such stories as "Feathers," "Chef's House," and "The Compartment"—which reflect hopelessness and despair—with "A Small, Good Thing" and "Where I'm Calling From" in which Carver allows his characters more compassion and choice.
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Interview by Raymond Carver and Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory
8,093 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following interview, Carver reflects on his childhood, his writing methods, and his literary influences.
 


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Raymond Carver by William Shakespeare

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