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Raymond Carver, 1938 - 1988, was a short-story writer of contemporary matter. The majority of his writings are situated in the Pacific Northwest region of the US, where he was a native. The works focus on characters who are of lower-middle class, who were similar to the individuals who surrounded him in his youth.

Thomas R. Edwards described Carver's writing, in a New York Time's Review of Books article, "people worry about whether their old cars will start, where unemployment or personal ...

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