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on family life

Chris Carver (daughter)

We'd sit down to the dinner table and my dad would be drunk and he'd start egging my brother on. He'd have my brother in tears. One time he started badgering me, and I picked up a hot roller set and tossed it through the sliding glass door...

From Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography, by Sam Halpert, University Of Iowa Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Sam Halpert.