The 10 Best Books of 2009
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-10 10:47
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RAYMOND CARVER: A Writer’s Life
By Carol Sklenicka
Scribner, $35.
Ten years in the making, this prodigiously researched and meticulous biography sympathetically and adroitly integrates its subject’s work with the turbulent life -— marred by alcoholism, financial turmoil and family discord — that brought it into -being. -Sklenicka shrewdly deconstructs Carver’s fraught relationship with Gordon Lish, the editor who played an outsize role in the creation of Carver’s stories, the most influential of a generation.