Volume 46, Number 13 · August 12, 1999
Looking for Raymond Carver
By A.O. Scott
Books by Raymond Carver mentioned in this essay
All of Us: The Collected Poems
by Raymond Carver
Knopf, 386 pp., $27.50
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver
Vintage, 228 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
by Raymond Carver
Vintage, 204 pp., $11.00 (paper)
A New Path to the Waterfall
by Raymond Carver
Atlantic Monthly Press, 126 pp., $10.95 (paper)
No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings
by Raymond Carver
Vintage, 239 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
by Raymond Carver. tenth-anniversary edition
Vintage, 526 pp., $14.00 (paper)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
by Raymond Carver
Vintage, 159 pp., $10.00 (paper)
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
by Raymond Carver
Vintage, 251 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Plenty of writers are admired, celebrated, imitated, and hyped. Very few writers can, as Raymond Carver does in his poem 'Late Fragment,' call themselves beloved. In the years since his death in 1988, at fifty, from lung cancer, Carver's reputation has blossomed. He has gone from being an influential—and controversial—member of a briefly fashionable school of experimental fiction to being an international icon of traditional American literary values. His genius—but more his honesty, his decency, his commitment to the exigencies of craft—is praised by an extraordinarily diverse cross section of his peers.
Review, 8038 words
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