In a story by this author, a woman decides to quit a "core group" of co-workers after seeing a Vietnam vet's ear in a box on a date with the narrator at a "spade place" called the Off-Broadway.
In a story by this author, a woman decides to quit a "core group" of co-workers after seeing a Vietnam vet's ear in a box on a date with the narrator at a "spade place" called the Off-Broadway. In another story by him, a black family waits around a hamburger wrapper-strewn table during their stabbed son's operation. One of this author's characters jokes about a strawberry pie's soporific quality during his first time smoking pot. The vitamin saleswoman Donna has a brief affair with her boss Patti's husband in a story by this author, who also wrote a story in which Howard and Ann are harassed by (*) phone calls from a bakery about their hospitalized son Scotty, who is hit by a car on his birthday. The wife of one of his narrators writes a poem about having her face touched by the blind Robert, who is inspired by a TV show on the Middle Ages to hold the narrator's hand as he draws a building. For 10 points, name this alcoholic author of "A Small, Good Thing" and "Cathedral."
In a story by this author, a woman decides to quit a "core group" of co-workers after seeing a Vietnam vet's ear in a box on a date with the narrator at a "spade place" called the Off-Broadway.
Raymond Clevie Carver