Where I'm Calling From: The Selected Stories
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...
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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
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781860460395 (1860460399)
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Harvill Press
Pages no: 430
Edition language: English
Even though this collection is missing one of my favorite stories of Raymond Carver ("Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?"), I still consider this the definitive Raymond Carver collection. Some of his greatest stories are included here. It was almost like discovering Carver for the first time again....
I read these stories slowly over the course of the summer, a couple at a time, so as to give each one its due and so as not to make my heart break.
Like the Alice Munro stories, this is another book I've read I don't know how many times, but one Flaky Genius and I are reading as part of her master's classes. Carver is always unsettling, always interesting. A bit of a downer to read, though, Carver's stories are almost across the board about bro...
I seem to be one of the few people who managed to read this before seeing the Altman film Short Cuts, which is based on nine of the stories. I also like Short Cuts more than most of my friends. Possibly there's some connection.
28 years ago
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