In introducing readers to his world of the desperation of ordinary people, Carver created tales that are “brief … but by no means stark,” noted Geoffrey Wolff in his New York Times Book Review piece on Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? “They imply complexities of action and motive and they are especially artful in their suggestion of repressed violence. not for them a still unspoiled scenic wonderland, but a place where making a living is as hard, and the texture of life as drab, for those without money, as anywhere else.” Edwards describes Carver’s fictional world as a place where “people worry about whether their old cars will start, where unemployment or personal bankruptcy are present dangers, where a good time consists of smoking pot with the neighbors, with a little cream soda and M&M’s on the side … Carver’s characters are waitresses, mechanics, postmen, high school teachers, factory workers, door-to-door salesmen. In a New York Review of Books article, Thomas R.
Carver also published poetry collections, including A New Path to the Waterfall (1989), which was published posthumously.Ĭarver’s stories mainly take place in his native Pacific Northwest region they are peopled with the type of lower-middle-class characters the author was familiar with while he was growing up. His first wife, Maryann Burk, also held a series of jobs to support Carver as he began writing and eventually publishing acclaimed short-story collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976), What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), and Cathedral (1983). Returning to the Northwest, he took jobs as a janitor, farm worker, and delivery man. Carver went on to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He published his first short-story and poem while at Humboldt State. Carver attended Chico State University, where he studied with John Gardner, and earned his BA from Humboldt State College in 1963. Not coincidentally, “of all the writers at work today, Carver may have the most distinct vision of the working class,” as Ray Anello observed in a Newsweek article.
He was married and the father of two before he was 20, and he held a number of low-paying jobs: he “picked tulips, pumped gas, swept hospital corridors, swabbed toilets, managed an apartment complex,” according to Bruce Weber in a New York Times Magazine profile of the author.
Poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver was born in the logging town of Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington.
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