I didn't answer. She'd told me a little about the blind man's wife. Her name was Beulah. Beulah! That's a name for a colored woman.

She had referred, earlier in our conversation, to the latter stages of Lish's relationship with Carver as "appropriational". I ask if she feels there is any possessiveness in her own relationship with him.His final (incomplete) collection of seven stories, titled Elephant and Other Stories in Britain (included in Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories) was composed in the five years before his death. The nature of these stories, especially "Errand", have led to some speculation that Carver was preparing to write a novel. [ citation needed] Only one piece of this work has survived – the fragment "The Augustine Notebooks", first printed in No Heroics, Please. [ citation needed]

As Carver's will directed, Tess Gallagher assumed the management of his literary estate. [5] Awards and memorials [ edit ] Raymond Carver Memorial in Clatskanie, Oregon

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a b Carver, Maryann Burk (2006). What It Used to Be Like: A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781429902687.

After being hospitalized three times (between June 1976 and February or March 1977), Carver began his “second life” and stopped drinking on June 2, 1977, with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous. While he continued to regularly smoke marijuana and later experimented with cocaine at the behest of Jay McInerney during a 1980 visit to New York City, Carver believed he would have died of alcoholism at the age of 40 had he not overcome his drinking.Halpert, Sam (1995). Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 0-87745-502-3. Right then my wife filled me in with more detail than I cared to know. I made a drink and sat at the kitchen table to listen. Pieces of the story began to fall into place. Elephant and Other Stories (1988) – this title published only in Great Britain; included as a section of Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories in the U.S. The following excerpt from Scott Driscoll's review [11] of Maryann Burk Carver's 2006 memoir [12] describes the decline of her and Raymond's marriage.