![]() ![]() A combination of marital difficulties, heavy drinking, and poverty contributed to Clevie Carver's emotional breakdown in 1957. His father, who suffered from alcoholism, worked in a sawmill, and the family was often financially strapped. Born in Clatskanie, Oregon, May 25, 1938, to Clevie Raymond Carver and Ella Beatrice Casey, Carver was raised in Yakima, Washington. Raymond Carver's spare, realistic stories about the hardscrabble lives of the working class are rooted in his own experience. Raymond Carver’s spare, realistic stories about the hardscrabble lives of the working class are rooted in his own experience. Errand - ErrandRaymond Carver 1987Author BiographyPlot:. Table of Contents (pdf) - International Raymond Carver Society: Putting Yourself in the Shoes of Raymond Carver. He married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit', a career that would eventually kill him. Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. ![]() But in truth, I prefer his plays, and this, about Chekhov’s final moments and death by champagne is classic Carver – or classic Gordon Lish (Carver’s editor), as we might now be led to believe. ‘Errand’, by Raymond Carver As a Chekhov devotee it might seem odd I should choose a story about, not by, Chekhov.
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