Hear Raymond Carver’s Story “Fat” Read by Anne Enright

“Fat” is the first sto­ry in Ray­mond Carver’s 1976 col­lec­tion Will You Please Be Qui­et Please?. Thanks to The Guardian, you can hear the sto­ry read above by Irish author Anne Enright.

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