Where I’m Calling From (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Raymond Carver
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Parents and children, Nature, Authors or writers, Death or dying, Pacific Northwest, Fishing or fishermen, Wildlife, Outdoor life, Outdoor recreation
- Locales: United States
Since his second collection of short stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (1976), was nominated for the National Book Award, Raymond Carver has perhaps been the most admired short-story writer in American literature. The dust jacket of this, his fourth collection of stories, proclaims that for his enormous following it will be a sort of testament. No one knew at the time that it would be his last testament, for only a few months after the appearance of the book, Carver was dead at the age of fifty. Because Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories reprints...
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