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Raymond Carver (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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In style and subject matter, Raymond Carver’s short-story collections reflect his life experiences. The son of working-class parents, he grew up knowing the financial and spiritual hardships of trying to earn a living in the logging districts of Yakima, Washington. The first in his family ever to graduate from high school, by the age of twenty he was married and the father of two children. Parenting, he later said, was a responsibility for which he was totally unprepared.
In 1958, Carver moved his family to Northern California, where he attended Chico...
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