Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
by Raymond Carver

Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
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Author: Raymond Carver
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1989-06-18
ISBN: 0679722319
Number of pages: 526
Publisher: Vintage
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  • ISBN13: 9780679722311
  • Condition: New
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Summary of Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form. Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver's life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.
The last story collection published during Carver's life (he died in 1988) contains most of his greatest hits from his earlier books, as well as seven stories that hadn't been collected up to that point. The breadth of the collection makes these 37 stories an extremely complete map of Carver territory, of a particular area of America and of the specific texture of the people Carver writes about -- their difficult attempts at survival in a world where happiness does not arrive wrapped up in neat packages but comes in far more peculiar parcels, if it comes at all.

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