Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life - Hardcover

Sklenicka, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074326245X ISBN 13: 9780743262453

Publisher: Scribner, 2009

Synopsis

Raymond Carver In this biography of the iconic literary figure the London "Times" called the American Chekhov, Sklenicka penetrates the myths and controversies surrounding Raymond Carver's life and career. b&w photographs. Full description

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Review:

"Raymond Carver's stories and poems are still very much alive, and thanks to Carol Sklenicka's biography, Ray the writer comes to life again. This is a remarkable book, very thorough and deeply moving. I knew Ray, and now I know him better than ever." -- Richard Cortez Day, author of "When in Florence" and "Something for the Journey"

"If his stories, told in a clipped, brusque voice, help us better understand life in all its loveliness and anguish, then this biography does the same for the man behind them, only with a shout -- full-throated with the voices of those who knew him. Meticulously researched, unflinchingly honest, and always compelling. What we talk about when we talk about Carver will forever be defined by this poignant monument of a book." -- Benjamin Percy, author of "Refresh, Refresh" and "The Language of Elk"

About the Author:

Carol Sklenicka grew up in central California during the 1960s. She attended college in San Luis Obispo and taught high school in Oxnard before going to graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied with Naomi Lebowitz, Stanley Elkin, and Howard Nemerov. Her stories, essays, and reviews have been published in South Atlantic Quarterly, Confrontation, Sou'wester and other periodicals.

To research the life of Raymond Carver, she studied archives and visited towns all over the United States and conducted hundreds of interviews with his relatives, friends, and colleagues. She lives with her husband, poet R. M. Ryan, near the Russian River in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 074326245X
• ISBN 13: 9780743262453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 578