 | Conversations with Raymond Carver (Literary Conversations Series)
Buy new: $22.50 / Used from: $16.99 It's been a while since I read this one, and it was so interesting; his life with colleagues, writers, family, and more.
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 | Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver
Buy used from: $1.25 For great insight into the world of Raymond Carver, this is excellent. Many full-page pictures are depictions from the stories, and a short passage from the story is included. Intro by Tess Gallagher is excellent!
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 | What It Used to Be Like: A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver by Maryann Burk Carver
Buy used from: $3.04 You won't find much about Raymond Carver! But give it a try. The book is about his first wife...and frankly who cares? What's good here is a complete Chronology of Carver's work.
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 | Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.64 This collection, with 37 stories and many from Cathedral are here. Including "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Love. And, the sad "A Serious Talk", a alcoholic man, divorced, steps into the picture at home once again.
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 | Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $2.74 Unlike the collections of stories published, this one is slightly different from others, including "Occasions", a more personal writing from Carver about stories. Then, there are several "Early Stories", and "Five Essays & a Meditation".
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 | Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.93 One of his masterpieces, and probably his best-known story about an arrogant man who learns another way of seeing through the eyes of a blind man. Excellent story
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 | Short Cuts: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $0.21 The stories here have been the basis for a Robert Altman movie, Short Cuts. One of the gems here is "So Much Water So Close To Home" But don't expect too much likeness in the books vs the movies. The book is much better !!!
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 | Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $8.75 / Used from: $0.40 "Fires", Carver talks about two strong influences in his life, one being Gordon Lish, at that time, a literary editor and the other, John Gardner, who said to become a writer you need the necessary "fire".
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 | Reading Raymond Carver by Randolph Paul Runyon
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $3.06 Author Runyon provides an insightful interpretation of Raymond Carver's short story collections. He labels this insight "intratextuality", where the strategic placement and sequence of text makes a connection to other stories. As he says, "- and this is the thesis of my book -to the interstices between the stories as well."
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 | A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Published shortly before his death, this is a collections of poetry. Carver's poetry reads like his short stories, mysterious, real, haunting. Tess Gallagher was his second wife, a writer too, she adds a wonderful introduction.
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