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Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.
Beginners
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Beginners
Call If You Need Me
All of Us
Short Cuts
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Where I'm Calling From
Fires
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Cathedral
Ultramarine
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water

Books

Beginners
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Beginners
Call If You Need Me
All of Us
Short Cuts
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Where I'm Calling From
Fires
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Cathedral
Ultramarine
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water

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