SOURCE: Scott, A. O. “Looking for Raymond Carver.” New York Review of Books 46, no. 13 (August 12, 1999): 52-9.
In the following essay, Carver's work and career are considered in terms of the influences of his friends, mentors and editors, and his literary reputation in relation to the tremendous good will he engendered in just about everyone he met.
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