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What It Used to Be Like

Name: What It Used to Be Like
Author: Maryann Burk Carver

A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver

Maryann Burk Carver,

372 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

What It Used to Be Like

A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver

Maryann Burk Carver,

About this book

This intimate memoir of youth, marriage and literary ambition "presents powerful testimony to the dark side of both creativity and working-class life" ( Booklist ).

Maryann Burk Carver met Raymond Carver in 1955, when she was fifteen years old and he was seventeen. In What It Used to Be Like, she recounts a tale of young love and long-distance courtship followed quickly by marriage and two small children.

Over the next twenty-five years, as Carver's fame grew, the family led a nomadic life, moving from school to school and teaching post to teaching post. In 1972, they settled in Cupertino, California, where Raymond Carver gave his wife one of his sharpened pencils and asked her to write an account of their history.

The result is a memoir of a marriage, replete with an intimacy of detail that reveals the talents and failings of this larger-than-life man, his complicated relationships, and his profound loves and losses. What It Used to Be Like brings to light Raymond Carver's lost years and the stories behind his famous works.

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