Title:
Where I'm calling from : new and selected stories
Author:
Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988.
ISBN:
9780679722311
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 1989.
Physical Description:
xiv, 526 pages ; 21 cm.
Series:
Vintage contemporaries
Vintage contemporaries.
Contents:
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 -- Boxes -- Whoever was using this bed -- Intimacy -- Menudo -- Elephant -- Blackbird pie -- Errand.
Abstract:
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."
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780679722311.pdfContributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/88040366.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random042/88040366.html