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WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET PLEASE? - RAYMOND CARV...

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie  Oregon  in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and
his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to come second
to earning a living for his young family. Despite  small-press publication  it was not until
Will You Please Be Quiet Please? appeared in 1976 that his work began to reach a wider
audience. This was the year in which he gave up alcohol  which had contributed to the collapse
of his marriage. In 1977 he met the writer Tess Gallagher  with whom he shared the last eleven
years of his life. During this prolific period he wrote three collections of stories  What We
Talk About When We Talk About Love   Cathedral and Elephant . Fires   a collection of essays 
poems and stories  appeared in 1985  followed by three further collections of poetry. In 1988
he completed the poetry collection A New Path to the Waterfall .

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