Where I'm calling from : new and selected stories / Raymond Carver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage contemporaries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 526 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Vintage contemporaries edition.

Other Title:

Where I am calling from

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1989.

Summary:

A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. 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."

Contents:

Selected stories. Nobody said anything

Bicycles, muscles, cigarettes

Student's wife

They're not your husband

What do you do in San Francisco?

Fat

What's in Alaska?

Neighbors

Put yourself in my shoes

Collectors

Why, honey?

Are these actual miles?

Gazebo

One more thing

Little things

Why don't you dance?

Serious talk

What we talk about when we talk about love

Distance

Third thing that killed my father off

So much water so close to home

Calm

Vitamins

Careful

Where I'm calling from

Chef's house

Fever

Feathers

Cathedral

Small, good thing

New stories. Boxes

Whoever was using this bed

Intimacy

Menudo

Elephant

Blackbird pie

Errand.

ISBN:

0679722319

9780679722311

OCLC:

18985376

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