Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories (First Edition)

Raymond Carver

ISBN 10: 0871132168 / ISBN 13: 9780871132161

Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1988

About this Item

Atlantic, 1988. First printing of the first trade edition. A near-fine copy in a very good jacket. A clean copy with price ($19.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Some scratches and light wear to extremities of jacket (as pictured). Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1989. Rear-Stacks. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-3180

Bibliographic Details

Title: Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected ...

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Spans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes"

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