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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.
When Carver died in 1988, it was believed that the collection he'd just published would be his last. But here are the posthumous discoveries, essential for any Carver fan, which show the master of the short story and the essay at his best. The five stories revel in the open style characteristic of his later work, while the nonfiction prose includes essays, commentaries on his own work, and reviews of work by contemporaries like Jim Harrison and Richard Ford. A revealing addition to Carver's corpus which only reiterates his place in 20th century literature. (Kirkus UK)
