Where I'm Calling From Selected Stories

by CARVER, RAYMOND

• ISBN13: 9780679722311
• ISBN10: 0679722319
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-06-18
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

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 fromCathedral,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We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.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.

Author Biography

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, <b>Will You Please Be Quiet, Please</b> (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by <b>What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,</b> <b>Cathedral</b> (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and <b>Where I'm Calling From</b> in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in August of that year, shortly after completing the poems of <b>A New Path to the Waterfall.</b>

Table of Contents

Selected Stories
Nobody Said Anything	p. 3
Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes	p. 21
The Student's Wife	p. 34
They're Not Your Husband	p. 44
What do you do in San Francisco?	p. 53
Fat	p. 64
What's in Alaska?	p. 70
Neighbors	p. 86
Put Yourself in my Shoes	p. 94
Collectors	p. 113
Why, Honey?	p. 121
Are These Actual Miles?	p. 128
Gazebo	p. 139
One More Thing	p. 147
Little Things	p. 152
Why Don't you Dance?	p. 155
A Serious Talk	p. 162
What we Talk About When we Talk About Love	p. 170
Distance	p. 186
The Third Thing That Killed my Father Off	p. 198
So Much Water so Close to Home	p. 213
The Calm	p. 238
Vitamins	p. 245
Careful	p. 264
Where I'm Calling From	p. 278
Chef's House	p. 297
Fever	p. 303
Feathers	p. 332
Cathedral	p. 356
A Small, Good Thing	p. 376
New Stories
Boxes	p. 409
Whoever was Using This Bed	p. 425
Intimacy	p. 444
Menudo	p. 454
Elephant	p. 472
Blackbird Pie	p. 491
Errand	p. 512
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