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team staged and sequenced the images to provide a separate biographical narrative, this one visual, that echoes and deepens the book’s written narrative. Carver’s rough-and-tumble childhood and family life in lumber mill company houses in eastern
Washington state, his early and soon-troubled marriage, his struggles to write while shouldering aside economic privation, his alcoholism and marital affairs, his emerging status as a literary figure, and his early death are all represented. With this photographic gallery as source material, the book-design team settled on a brooding close-up portrait of Carver for the book’s front cover.
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429:, Abrahams described “the emotional and psychological climate of the 1970s” within which writers working “at the level of art” managed to thrive. However various the styles, Abrahams said, we recognize certain characteristics of the writing, with writers “turning to the privacy of individual experience for their subject.” These characteristics include “alienation from others, a deep uncertainty in and of the self…, a tormenting awareness of alternatives, a distrust of accepted pieties.” These were characteristics which applied to both Adams and Carver.
453:. Given the marked differences in their writing styles, it is notable how often Adams and Carver shared space in the same short story anthologies and how often they were implicitly or explicitly compared. See, for example, Angeline Goreau’s comparison of the “emotional anesthesia” of Carver’s characters to the propensity for “feeling too much” of Adams’ characters. Also see Keith Abbott, quoted in a review of a new Lucia Berlin short story collection in Goodreads: “With
53:, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Both Carver and Adams were known for intimate, strikingly lean narrative styles based closely on life experiences, and both are credited with modeling a new commitment to realism in American fiction. Both biographies, extensively researched, run to nearly 600 pages and both have been characterized as definitive. Sklenicka's biographies are the first and (as of 2023) the only biographies of Carver and Adams.
827:. New York: Scribner, 2009. The biography lists hundreds of sources and interviewees by individual name in the “Acknowledgments and Sources” section, pages 491-494. See also the book’s “Notes on Sources” section, pages 501-502. Finally see numerous individual citations in various chapters to information obtained in Sklenicka’s discussions with Maryann Burk Carver (MBC), Christine LaRae Carver (CLC), and Vance Lindsay Carver (VLC).
373:, reveals a writer's life that was “full of affairs, consuming, passionate, then failed,” and marked by “the kind of deeper sexual attachment that appears in her fiction.” Adams’ stories were “acutely observed and elegantly written,” another critic said.“This is feminism in literary action, the contemplative end of a continuum,” John Updike wrote in his introduction to
298:, including Lish's heavy-handed and uncredited rewrites of many of Carver's early stories; and Sklenicka's effectiveness in literary analysis, judiciously tying events and perspectives from Carver's turbulent personal life to specific content in his fictional narratives and poems. “Sklenicka's biography,” Jacob Appel notes in
413:, Sklenicka suggested the image they finally used: Adams, alone and serene, holding a black cat, echoing a style common to many Renaissance portraits of grand ladies. In a final homage, the book-design team framed the Adams cover portrait in a style inspired by the book jacket of her most successful novel,
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In an era when the conventions of realism were under assault by more established authors, Carver, as the “major practitioner” and the putative leader of a new group of
American realism writers, is credited with creating an intense new brand of realism. For a brief but cogent description of Carver’s
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extended to her search for and curating of scores of key photographs spanning the decades of Adams’ life. The three dozen images selected by
Sklenicka, her editors, and the Simon & Schuster book design team to appear in (and on the front cover of) the book constitute a condensed biography in and
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Although she wrote 11 successful novels, Elaine Woo noted, “it was the compactness of Adams’ writing . . . that served her well in short stories.” Victoria Wilson, the respected senior editor at Knopf who worked closely with Adams for 30 years, commented that she "was a master at condensing so much,
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Also widely reviewed and praised, Sklenicka's biography of Alice Adams develops an intimate and detailed portrait of a well-educated (Radcliffe), well-married, and well-traveled young southern woman who is transplanted to San
Francisco. Over the next few years she extricates herself from an unhappy
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Sklenicka’s effort in locating and interviewing more than 300 sources for the Carver biography is complemented by her work in finding and assembling the 16-page gallery of dozens of photographs that occupy the very center of the book. The author, her editor, and the Simon & Schuster book-design
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In four decades of writing, 39 magazines published 115 of her stories and essays. More than once she appeared in O. Henry Prize short story annuals and Best
American Short Stories alongside Raymond Carver. The intimate knowledge Sklenicka developed of the details of Adams’ life enabled a close
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Sklenicka's book, ten years in the writing, an "exhaustively researched and definitive biography.” Sklenicka began by interviewing friends and relatives who had known Carver during his hardscrabble growing up in rural, economically depressed areas of the Pacific northwest. Ultimately she
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literary analysis of “how deeply Adams drew from her life to inspire her fiction,” one reviewer said. And
Sklenicka’s biography in many ways turns on the revelation of “how the life and work are so intricately intertwined.” This biography, says Rumaan Alam in
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marriage and becomes known for her compelling fictional narratives of women with independent spirits in an era when it was not easy for a single woman to earn a living regardless of her education and privilege. Adams's life and work, said
Barbara Lane in the
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840:. Archived from the original on 17 November 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2021. The family suffered “just about every indignity that drunkenness confers,” Lacayo comments, and describes Sklenicka's account of those years as “harrowing”;
30:(December 11, 1948) is an American biographer and literary scholar known for her authoritative, full-scale biographies of two important figures in late twentieth-century American literature: acclaimed short story masters
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of themselves. The pictures of family, friends, former lovers, and a beautiful and independent woman at different stages of her life demonstrate that her fiction does indeed “contain Adams the person” as Alam said in
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Alice Adams, using a very different style for her powerful, intimate short story narratives, was also an unembarrassed practitioner of realism. See the description of her style by John Updike in his introduction to
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Pollitt said the typical Adams story “announces itself in the very first sentence as a thing of edgy wit and compressed narrative power.”
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Sklenicka's biography of Raymond Carver has been highly praised. “As a chronicle of Carver's growth as a writer,” novelist Stephen King observed, “Sklenicka's book is invaluable.”
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