Where I'm Calling From

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Where I'm Calling From

new and selected stories

1st Trade ed.
  • 4.50 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 22 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

New and Selected Stories

In his first book of fiction in over four years, Carver has included all of his new work as well as his best stories from four earlier collections.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
393

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Where I'm Calling From
Where I'm Calling From
April 12, 1999, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Where I'm Calling from
Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories
September 1998, Atlantic Monthly Pr, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Hardcover in English - 10 Anv edition
Cover of: Where I'm Calling From
Where I'm Calling From
May 27, 1989, Random House Audio
in English
Cover of: Where I'm calling from
Where I'm calling from: new and selected stories
1989, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Cover of: Where I'm calling from
Where I'm calling from: new and selected stories
1988, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- 1st Trade ed.
Cover of: Where I'm Calling From
Where I'm Calling From: new and selected stories
1988, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Hardcover in English - 1st Trade ed.

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Table of Contents

SELECTED STORIES
Nobody Said Anything 3
Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes 17
The Student s Wife 26
They're Not Your Husband
33
What DO You DO in San Francisco? 40
Fat 48
What's in Alaska? 53
Neighbors 65
Put Yourself in My Shoes 71
Collectors 85
Why, Honey? 91
Are These Actual Miles? 96
Gazebo 104
One More Thing 110
Little Things 114
Why Don 't You Dance? 116
A Serious Talk 122
What we Talk About When we Talk About Love 128
Distance 140
The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off 149
So Much Water So Close to Home 160
The Calm 178
Vitamins 183
Careful 197
Where I'm Calling From 208
Chefs House 222
Fever 227
Feathers 248
Cathedral 266
A Small, Good Thing 280
NEW STORIES
Boxes 305
Whoever Was Using This Bed 317
Intimacy 331
Menudo 338
Elephant 351
Blackbird Pie 365
Errand 381

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.A7894 W43 1988, PS3553.A7894W43 1988

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xviii, 393 p. ;
Number of pages
393

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2405788M
Internet Archive
whereimcallingfr00carv_0
ISBN 10
0871132168
ISBN 13
9780871132161
LCCN
87036778
OCLC/WorldCat
751236374
Library Thing
3623
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
2438966

First Sentence

"I could hear them out in the kitchen."

Work Description

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 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver’s life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.

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