Where I'm Calling From
Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories, by Raymond Carver. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First trade edition, first printing (stated).
”I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.” Raymond Carver’s voice is a voice unmatched. His gritty minimalism cuts straight to the heart, his simple, straightforward pen somehow articulating the deepest complexities of human relationships. Carver accomplished in his short stories what some novels do not accomplish in hundreds of pages: true and meaningful emotion. A heavy smoker and an alcoholic, Carver’s stories deal often with substance abuse and its consequent strain on relationships. His words were a magnifying glass on the everyday man, his worries and his pains, his family and his struggles to make ends meet, his failures and his addictions, and all his moments in between. The last collection that Carver finished in his lifetime, Where I’m Calling From compiles 37 stories, new and previously published, that capture his iconic and deeply moving style.
A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket.
Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories, by Raymond Carver. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First trade edition, first printing (stated).
”I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.” Raymond Carver’s voice is a voice unmatched. His gritty minimalism cuts straight to the heart, his simple, straightforward pen somehow articulating the deepest complexities of human relationships. Carver accomplished in his short stories what some novels do not accomplish in hundreds of pages: true and meaningful emotion. A heavy smoker and an alcoholic, Carver’s stories deal often with substance abuse and its consequent strain on relationships. His words were a magnifying glass on the everyday man, his worries and his pains, his family and his struggles to make ends meet, his failures and his addictions, and all his moments in between. The last collection that Carver finished in his lifetime, Where I’m Calling From compiles 37 stories, new and previously published, that capture his iconic and deeply moving style.
A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket.
Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories, by Raymond Carver. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First trade edition, first printing (stated).
”I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.” Raymond Carver’s voice is a voice unmatched. His gritty minimalism cuts straight to the heart, his simple, straightforward pen somehow articulating the deepest complexities of human relationships. Carver accomplished in his short stories what some novels do not accomplish in hundreds of pages: true and meaningful emotion. A heavy smoker and an alcoholic, Carver’s stories deal often with substance abuse and its consequent strain on relationships. His words were a magnifying glass on the everyday man, his worries and his pains, his family and his struggles to make ends meet, his failures and his addictions, and all his moments in between. The last collection that Carver finished in his lifetime, Where I’m Calling From compiles 37 stories, new and previously published, that capture his iconic and deeply moving style.
A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket.
