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Sat 10 Oct 2009Raymond Carver in his own words
SHORT STORIES: EILEEN BATTERSBYreviews BeginnersBy Raymond Carver, Cape, 212pp. £16.99
IN HIS ESSAY, On Writing, the gifted American realist Raymond Carver wrote: “Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. It’s akin to style, what I’m talking about, but it isn’t style alone. It is the writer’s particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes.”
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