Where I'm Calling From: New & Selected Stories
Language: English
Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1988
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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A NF book in a NF dust jacket. First Edition/ First Printing (stated). Book has light bumping to lower front board edge and one corner very lightly dinged else clean, unmarked, tight and square. Jacket has light to normal shelf wear else fully intact, bright and clean with no markings or tears. A solid, possibly unread copy over all.
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- Title
- Where I'm Calling From: New & Selected Stories
- Author
- Carver, Raymond; Adelman, Bob
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0871132168
- ISBN 13
- 9780871132161
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 222 of 248: Vintage Contemporaries
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Review
" [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
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