All of Us (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Raymond Carver
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Authors or writers, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Cancer, Divorce, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Life and death, Mortality
Raymond Carver is one of the twentieth century’s most popular storytellers; fiction anthologies and literature textbooks nearly always feature samples of his work. “Where I’m Calling From” and “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” have become as familiar to students as William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” and often more popular with them. Carver’s stories use compressed, elliptical dialogue to telegraph intense emotions in psychologically persuasive, sympathetic characters. To read Carver’s fiction is to feel powerfully in touch with the surface and depths of...
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