Where Im Calling From, Raymond Carver
Where Im Calling From, Raymond Carver
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Where I'm Calling From
Selected Stories

Author: Raymond Carver

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Unabridged: 16 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/18/2017

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.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 thirty-seven stories give us a superb overview of Carver's life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.

About Raymond Carver

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on November 15, 2024

The typical profile of an American adult reader of literature is a college-educated professional making a decent salary in a choice environment such as the publishing industry, law office, consulting firm or college or university. But how about the other America, populated by men and women worlds aw......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on June 04, 2014

‘It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.’ Life has a way of breaking even the strongest of hearts, of dashing families, friendships and lovers against the cold rocks of reality, leaving hopes and dreams to drown beneath the waves of......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on January 17, 2018

I wanted the first book I read in 2018 to be special, and this classic selection of stories by Raymond Carver – the final book he published during his lifetime (he died in 1988 at the incredibly young age of 50) – fit the bill. Here, presented in chronological order, are 37 stories representing more......more

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