Sorry about the confused beginning...
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From: Matthew Francis <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 26 October 2000 12:39
Subject: Re: Raymond Carver
>Clayton writes:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Clayton Hansen <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 26 October 2000 09:02
>Subject: Re: Raymond Carver
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>I have the Picador volume The Stories of Raymond Carver, which contains the
>stories originally published in Will You Please Be Quiet, Please, What We
>Talk About When We Talk About Love and Cathedral. (I've a feeling that he
>must have published at least one volume after this.) One of the greatest
>short-story writers ever - I don't know his poetry. But I find his early
>stories the best - the first three in my book, Fat, Neighbors and The Idea
>are devastating. I've always suspected that after the early stories,
>somebody taught him to write 'properly', with well-constructed plots etc,
>and somehow the dangerousness went out of the stories. I find Cathedral
(the
>story) sentimental. An interesting case in point is the story The Bath,
>which has an open ending in What We Talk About, and gets done again in
>Cathedral as A Small Good Thing, with a very sentimental one. (The Altman
>film Short Cuts uses the latter version).
>
>He died at 50, of lung cancer.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Matthew
>
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