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Author Halpert, Sam, 1920-

Title Raymond Carver : an oral biography / Sam Halpert
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description viii, 196 pages ; 25 cm
Summary Some of America's most distinguished writers remember Raymond Carver in these pages, including Richard Ford, Leonard Michaels, Scott Turow, Tobias Wolff, Geoffrey Wolff, Chuck Kinder, William Kittredge, Stephen Dobyns, Douglas Unger, Dick Day, John Leggett, Donald Justice, Jay McInerney, and Robert Stone. His first wife, Maryann Carver, and their daughter, Chris Carver, also contribute their recollections of his early efforts to become a writer while struggling with poverty and alcoholism
Raymond Carver has become a literary icon for our time. When he died in 1988 at the age of fifty, he was acclaimed as the greatest influence on the American short story since Hemingway. Carver's friends were the stuff of legend as well. In this rich collection - greatly expanded from the earlier When We Talk about Raymond Carver - of interviews with close companions, acquaintances, and family, Sam Halpert has chronologically arranged the reminiscences of Carver's adult life, recalling his difficult "Bad Raymond" days through his second life as a recovering alcoholic and triumphantly successful writer
Notes Enl. ed. of: ...When we talk about Raymond Carver. 1st ed. 1991
Subject Carver, Raymond -- Criticism and interpretation
Carver, Raymond -- Friends and associates -- Interviews
Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988 -- Friends and associates -- Interviews.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biographw
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 94046555
ISBN 0877455023 (alk. paper)
0877455031 (paperback: alk. paper)
OTHER TI When we talk about Raymond Carver
Other Titles When we talk about Raymond Carver