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by Raymond Carver

  • ISBN: 0871132354
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: Raymond Carver
  • Subcategory: Short Stories & Anthologies
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr; Deluxe edition (July 1, 1988)
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Where I’M calling from. We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

Where I’M calling from. We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Where I’M calling from. Nobody Said Anything. Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes.

His most recent book was Ultramarine, 1986, poems. He was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1939, and currently lives in Port Angeles, Washington

His most recent book was Ultramarine, 1986, poems. He was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1939, and currently lives in Port Angeles, Washington. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979 and has twice been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1983 Carver received the prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and in 1985 Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize. In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Raymond Carver is such an artist

Raymond Carver is such an artist. Where I'm Calling From is what a collection of short stories should strive to be. This perfect slice of Americana almost seems to be a roving camera, going from window to window down the street of a typical American home, showcasing how each one of these people, no matter how things may look on the outside, have some down and dirty details of their own lives

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories Carver's 306 poems are collected in All Of Us (1996) after previously appearing in the collections: Near Klamath (1968), Winter Insomnia (1970), At Night The Salmon Move (1976).

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories. New York: Atlantic Monthly (1988); Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library (1988). Carver's 306 poems are collected in All Of Us (1996) after previously appearing in the collections: Near Klamath (1968), Winter Insomnia (1970), At Night The Salmon Move (1976), Fires (1983), Where Water Comes Together With Other Water (1985), This Water (1985), Ultramarine (1986), Early For The Dance (1986.

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Raymond Carver, author of Where I'm Calling From, is widely considered one of the great short story writers of our time. A New Path to the Waterfall was Carver's last book, and shows a writer telling the truth as best as he knows how in the time left to h. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver. With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story.

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Yes, because it’s Raymond Carver. Answered Aug 9, 2019 · Author has 110 answers and 3. k answer views. Well, yes and no. Yes, because it’s Raymond Carver. You won’t be disappointed. A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. It also contains bibliographical and textual notes on individual poems; a chronology of Carver’s life and work; and a moving introduction by Carver’s widow, the poet Tess Gallagher.

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.

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 seven stories from his last collection, Elephant. Put off by the theme of alcoholism running throughout the majority of stories. Also beautiful - Where I'm.

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"
Reviews about Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories (Limited Edition) (7):
Beazezius
Quite simply, Carver was probably the greatest American short-story writer of the 20th century - or, at a bare minimum, second only to O. Henry and maybe his (Carver's) contemporary, John Cheever (excluding the far lesser-known Breece D'J Pancake, a West Virginia writer who, alas, blew his 27-year-old brains out in 1979, after which his only twelve stories were compiled posthumously in a single, brilliant tome, titled simply THE STORIES OF BREECE D'J PANCAKE; Pancake, incidentally, was described in a letter by Kurt Vonnegut to one of Pancake's writing instructors as "merely the best, most sincere writer I have ever read," a statement in regards to which V. gave said instructor "his word of honor").

All in all, WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE? is probably Carver's best single collection of stories (IMHO, anyway), though CATHEDRAL is a definitely a close second. However, inasmuch as CALLING FROM is a collection of collections, as it were, containing all or almost all of the sixteen or so tales in QUIET, for the price of CALLING I'd recommend it to new Carver fans, or those interested in reading his stuff for the first time, even more so than QUIET.

In brief: Carver was a brilliant, complicated man, and his stories were equally so, though often appear somewhat superficial on the surface. At their core, the best of them are, quite simply, utterly and heartbreakingly beautiful.
Saithinin
Only sometime after starting my own literary renaissance, as part of my mid-life crisis, about 6 years ago, I hadn't heard of Raymond Carver. I heard the monthly fiction podcast for the New Yorker with a reading of Carver's short story, Chef's House. I was affected by this short, short story. Then I read "Cathedral," which is my personal favorite story, next to "The Dead" by James Joyce.

I bought this last collection of Carver's best stories. I'm not sure why his estate hasn't allowed the publication of his books on Kindle. Perhaps it's in his will. He died from lung cancer in 1988 at 50.

The stories I've read primarily revolve around 2 related traumas: a collapsed or collapsing marriage and alcoholism. He survived both. He surely wrote what he knew.

I wish I could highly recommend this collection. But, frankly, most of his stories are so dang depressing to me I cannot suggest you undergo a similar strain. EXCEPT "Cathedral" which, as I see it, is the perfect illustration of why we all should reserve judgment on others, be more tolerant, and we may well be changed in the most dramatic and cathartic ways by those people our prejudiced minds would tell us seem least likely to do so.

If you take anything from this review, I'd wish it's the desire to read "Cathedral" and to find it somewhere and read it.
Duzshura
Short story collections can be some of the most difficult things to rate, as you can go from absolutely loving one story in the collection to hating the next one, or, you know, all of them. In fact, I think it takes a very solid artist to be able to not only create a collection where each story holds your interest in a pleasant manner, but also seems to somehow be connected.

Raymond Carver is such an artist. Where I'm Calling From is what a collection of short stories should strive to be. This perfect slice of Americana almost seems to be a roving camera, going from window to window down the street of a typical American home, showcasing how each one of these people, no matter how things may look on the outside, have some down and dirty details of their own lives.

While it may be easy to take from this collection the concept that Carver wants to paint everyone as this hopeless and depressing picture, I think it should be noticed that these people (at least most of them) continue to strive. They may be found at their lowest points, but they are still moving forward, still living, and still contributing. This collection shows people at their darkest, in most of the stories anyways, but also always carries this glimmer of hope that tomorrow will be better.

Each characterization in this book is spot on. You can picture these people sitting in the diner, at the table in their dining room, or in the couch on their front lawn, without much description being required, simply because the characterizations are so perfectly produced.

The art of the short story may be one that has many authors stymied. That could possible be because folks like Carver have defined the art so perfectly, it's difficult for a lesser artist to compare.
Ynonno
I'd never heard of Raymond Carver and after discovering him, I couldn't believe I'd never heard of him. It was the first time I'd read short stories in a long time. The stories end sort of abruptly and it took me a few to get used to that. I would give 5 stars but the stories all had a depressing tone that made me reluctant to read at times but the writing is amazing, how quickly you get a sense of the characters, his attention to detail, remarkable.

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