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Frederick Barthelme’s 1983 short story collection, Moon Deluxe, features characters from the Deep South who live alienated suburban lives spent shopping and drifting aimlessly. Barthelme, like Carver, has been labeled a minimalist and practitioner of “Kmart realism.”

Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver (1990), with photographs by Bob Adelman, presents photographs of places where Carver grew up and lived, accompanied by text from Carver’s poems and stories.

Some of Carver’s best-known short stories are collected in Cathedral,...

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