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    Where I'm Calling From

    Selected Stories

    Part of Vintage Contemporaries

    Author Raymond Carver
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale May 25, 2015 | 544 Pages | 9781101970591
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    A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988.
    Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall. View titles by Raymond Carver
    "One of the great short story writers of our time—of any time." —The Philadelphia Inquirer

    "One of the true contemporary masters." —The New York Review of Books

    "[Carver's stories] can...be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction." —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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    A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988.

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    Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall. View titles by Raymond Carver

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    "One of the great short story writers of our time—of any time." —The Philadelphia Inquirer

    "One of the true contemporary masters." —The New York Review of Books

    "[Carver's stories] can...be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction." —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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