Where I'm Calling From: The Selected Stories - Softcover

Carver, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860460399 ISBN 13: 9781860460395

Publisher: Harvill Press, 1993

Synopsis

Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own selection from his short stories, revised the texts and published them in this authorative edition.

The stories in Where I'm Calling From are selected from the full range of the author's work including Furious Seasons, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, and Cathedral and include all seven stories from his last collection, Elephant.

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Where I'm Calling from Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own choice of his short stories, revised the texts and published them in this authorative edition. The stories in Where I'm Calling from are selected from the full range of the author's work including Furious Seasons, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, and Cathedral and include all s... Full description

Review:

The summation of a triumphant career from " one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time." ("The Philadelphia Inquirer")
" [Raymond Carver is] one of the true contemporary masters." -- "The New York Review of Books"
" [Carver's stories] can...be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction." -- Irving Howe, "The New York Times Book Review"
" [These stories] overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.... Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty, his eye set on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart." -- "The Washington Post Book World"

The summation of a triumphant career from "one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time." (The Philadelphia Inquirer)"[Raymond Carver is] one of the true contemporary masters." --The New York Review of Books"[Carver's stories] can...be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction." --Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review"[These stories] overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.... Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty, his eye set on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart." --The Washington Post Book World

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1860460399
• ISBN 13: 9781860460395
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448