Maryann Burk Carver married Raymond Carver in 1957, when she was sixteen-years-old and he nineteen. Over the next twenty-five years, as Carver's fame grew, the couple and their two children led a nomadic life, moving from school to school, teaching post to teaching post. Finally, in 1972, they settled in Cupertino, California where Raymond Carver gave his wife one of his sharpened pencils and bade her to write an account of their history. The result is a breathtaking memoir of a marriage replete with the intimacy of detail ...
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Maryann Burk Carver married Raymond Carver in 1957, when she was sixteen-years-old and he nineteen. Over the next twenty-five years, as Carver's fame grew, the couple and their two children led a nomadic life, moving from school to school, teaching post to teaching post. Finally, in 1972, they settled in Cupertino, California where Raymond Carver gave his wife one of his sharpened pencils and bade her to write an account of their history. The result is a breathtaking memoir of a marriage replete with the intimacy of detail that fully reveals the illnesses and talents of this larger-than-life man, his complicated relationships, and his profound loves and losses.
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