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TheChocolateMelted t1_ixyrsjv wrote

>but I just couldn't explain to myself what exactly it was or why it affected me so much.

This is exactly how his characters feel. This is why it works.

Favourite Carver story - and one I'll recommend - is called 'Fat'. He just gets so much so right. He sees his world way more clearly than anyone else. Just beautiful stuff.

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Valuable-Elevator511 OP t1_iy0yjob wrote

Will definitely get it. Feel like reading again. And I think you're absolutely right about his characters, especially in these stories - there is a feeling of slight dissociation or something but maybe I'm projecting that because most of them start in the middle and have no conclusion so they feel ever so slightly out of time

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