New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. "Maryann Burk Carver met Raymond Carver in 1955, when she was fifteen years old and he was seventeen. In What It Used to Be LIke, she recounts a tale of love at first sight in which the two teenagers got to know each other by sharing a two-year long-distance correspondence that soon after found them married and with two small..... More