Fires Essays Poems Stories More than sixty stories poems and essays are included in this wide ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver Two of the stories later revised for What We Talk About When We Ta

More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver Two of the stories later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver s literary development.
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Unlimited [History Book] Ù Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories - by Raymond Carver Õ
268 Raymond Carver
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Title: Unlimited [History Book] Ù Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories - by Raymond Carver Õ
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Published :2020-06-12T07:00:59+00:00
Carver was born into a poverty stricken family at the tail end of the Depression He married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of full time drinking as a serious pursuit , a career that would eventually kill him Constantly struggling to support his wife and family, Carver enrolled in a writing programme under author John Gardner in 1958 He saw this opportunity as a turning point.Rejecting the experimental fiction of the 60s and 70s, he pioneered a precisionist realism reinventing the American short story during the eighties, heading the line of so called dirty realists or K mart realists Set in trailer parks and shopping malls, they are stories of banal lives that turn on a seemingly insignificant detail Carver writes with meticulous economy, suddenly bringing a life into focus in a similar way to the paintings of Edward Hopper As well as being a master of the short story, he was an accomplished poet publishing several highly acclaimed volumes.After the line of demarcation in Carver s life 2 June 1977, the day he stopped drinking his stories become increasingly redemptive and expansive Alcohol had eventually shattered his health, his work and his family his first marriage effectively ending in 1978 He finally married his long term parter Tess Gallagher they met ten years earlier at a writers conference in Dallas in Reno less than two months before he eventually lost his fight with cancer.