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These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.
Beautifully wrought short stories by a master storyteller, written in the last year of his life, before his untimely death at 50 from lung cancer. The story imagining the death of Chekhov is specially moving. Recommended.
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