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He was born in Oregon and spent his childhood in Washington State. His father worked at a sawmill and his mother did various jobs which included waitressing, clerk and a high school teacher. His initial schooling was done in the local schools. His interest in writing developed early while he was in school. In 1. 95. 6 Carver graduated from Yakima High School and started working at a sawmill with his father. In 1. 95. 7 he married his first wife and had a daughter the same year and a son the next. Carver moved to California with his family where he started following his career in writing religiously. He was influenced by his mentor John Gardner. He attended many courses of Creative Writing. He also continued with his education and started going to the Chico State University and then The Humboldt State College and finally received his Bachelors degree in 1. His first job as a writer was with a literary magazine . He wrote many articles for it under pseudonyms. However his first short story was published in 1. His first collection of short stories was . His story from this collection was included in the . The collection sold five thousand copies which were not much but it was still nominated for the National Book Award. During the 1. 96. Carver worked hard to earn money for which he even worked as a janitor at a hospital. He would do his job along with writing his stories in his free time. He took some more classes from the then Sacramento State College. There he got the chance of meeting the poet Dennis Schmitz who became a good friend. Carver moved once again to California where he had gotten a job for Science Research Associates as a text book editor. Unfortunately he was fired from this job under the culpability of . This was in the year 1. He started drinking which greatly influenced his abilities as a writer. Even though he went through rehabilitation, Carver did not give up drinking until three years later when he hospitalized due to his severe condition. Carver’s collection called . The second one was later included in . Carver met Tess Gallagher, a poet, at a conference; a meeting which later turned to love and then marriage in 1. Carver died six weeks after his wedding in Port Angeles due to lung cancer. Carver was fifty years old at the time of his death. Retrieved 0. 4: 0. September 1. 9, 2. Harvard Style. Raymond Carver . Famous. Authors. org 1. September, http: //www. MHRA Style' Raymond Carver', Famous. Authors. org,(2. 01. Famous. Authors. org; 2. Available from: http: //www. Short Cuts Summary - e. Notes. com. SHORT CUTS resembles Altman’s cult classic NASHVILLE (1. SHORT CUTS enjoyed only modest box- office success because Carver is not well known to the masses and the actors, with the exception of Jack Lemmon, are not major stars. For example, he spirited Carver’s characters to Los Angeles, a city not even situated in “Carver Country.” The film by itself, however, is an impressive work of cinematic art which enhances Altman’s distinguished reputation while introducing the late Raymond Carver to a wider audience. In “So Much Water So Close to Home,” four men discover a murdered woman’s nude body in the river but do not report it until they have finished their three- day fishing trip. It describes a father’s grief over the death of his son and is written in the author’s characteristic low- key, conversational manner, helplessly commiserating while conspicuously shunning the kinds of speculations and epiphanies contained in such elegies as John Milton’s “Lycidas” (1. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Adonais” (1. Alfred Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” (1.
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