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Fiction
In reply to the discussion: What Fiction are you reading this week, June 6, 2021? [View all]hermetic
(8,934 posts)12. Looks to be some interesting reading.
I never heard of Carver but he sounds worth looking into
Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents. Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful for what is left unsaid,
Thanks for sharing.
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