Questi sette racconti furono gli ultimi scritti da Carver. Tra questi, uno dei più lunghi, "Errand", in cui immagina la morte di Cechov, uno scrittore che Carver ammirava immensamente e al quale il suo lavoro veniva spesso paragonato. Questo bel racconto suggerisce che il più grande degli scrittori moderni di racconti brevi potrebbe aver fletteto i muscoli per un'opera più lunga nell'anno precedente alla sua prematura scomparsa.
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Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first short stories appeared in Esquire during Gordon Lish's tenure as fiction editor in the 1970s. Carver's work began to reach a wider audience with the 1976 publication of Will You Please be Quiet, Please, but it was not until the 1981 publication of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love under Gordon Lish, then at Knopf, that he began to achieve real literary fame. This collection was edited by more than 40 per cent before publication, and Carver dedicated it to his fellow writer and future wife, Tess Gallagher, with the promise that he would one day republish his stories at full length. He went on to write two more collections of stories, Cathedral and Elephant, which moved away from the earlier minimalist style into a new expansiveness, as well as several collections of poetry. He died in 1988, aged fifty.
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