Where I'm Calling From
New and Selected Stories
Book - 1989
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."
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Publisher:
New York : Vintage Books, 1989
Edition:
First Vintage contemporaries edition
ISBN:
9780679722311
0679722319
0679722319
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FICTION Car
Description:
xiv, 526 pages ; 21 cm
Alternative Title:
Where I am calling from
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Add a CommentA classic. Some stories are from other collections. A master of short story writing.
An outstanding collection of short stories. Carver is a master of the genre, realistically capturing the minute details of the trials and tribulations of human relationships as well as individuals' feeble and unsuccessful attempts to find happiness through self-medication.
I slogged through half of this story collection before giving up. I only liked 1 or 2 of the stories, and even then Carver's style did not resonate with me. Many of his characters seemed too unreal, and their frequent naivete was annoying. I consider myself a fairly open-minded reader, but the seeming randomness of where his stories start and where they end just did not work for me.