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by: Kirk Nesset
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780821411001
ISBN: 0821411004
Label: Ohio University Press
Manufacturer: Ohio University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 131
Publication Date: January 01, 1995
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Sales Rank: 260835
Studio: Ohio University Press
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Rating:  - A Great Critical Work!
This is the study on Ray Carver I've been looking for. Excellent! Very smart, super smart, and still readable. A great aid for teaching Carver's fiction, or for writing about it, or for just understanding its intricacies, of which there are many, as Nesset demonstrates. Great book!
Rating: - BRAVO!
Thanks to Kirk Nesset for writing a study that's EXCITING TO READ even while thoughtful and smart and interpretively right on the money. Who said writing about writers and writing had to be boring? This is the book I've been wanting to find!
Rating: - Carver Lives in This Book
I've perused all of the critical work and this book outshines them all -- by at least 300 per cent. It's engaging, penetrating, well-developed and lucid, and written humanely no less, with much flair and elan. What a refreshing read, considering the arid critical deserts one often wanders. Nesset explores all of Carver's major volumes of stories, discussing selected stories in each while touching on others, and reflecting on Carver's poems here and there to good effect, using them as signposts ... Read More
Rating:  - Raymond Carver's Critical Condition
Nesset, whose near-obsessive interest with Carver provides many insights, manages to do what few serious critical inquiries do: entertain while he enlights. And, as anybody who has read some of Nesset's own fiction can attest, what he has learned from a master has not been lost on the student.
Rating:  - a creative work in itself
I must admit, I did have some trouble with Mr. Nesset's book. All and all I found the book very entertaining, but I am not convinced for one second that Raymond Carver made a conscience effort to add all the symbols to his stories that Mr. Nesset claims he did. As a fiction writer myself, it is hard enough to just put the words on paper without making a conscience effort at turning every single thing and detail into a symbol relating to the story. I am curious as to whether Carver himself said ... Read More
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