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"‘It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love."
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.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 equalled.
"... Mr Carver stands squarely in the line of descent of American realism. His weaknesses are for sentimentality and sensationalism. His great gift is for writing stories that create meaning through their form… Mr Carver uses his narrow world to generate suggestive configurations that could not occur in a wider one. His impulse to simplify is like an attempt to create a hush, not to hear less but to hear better. Nothing recurs so powerfully in these stories as the imagination of another life, always so like the narrator’s or the protagonist’s own that the imagination of it is an experience of the self, that fuddled wraith.” - Marilynne Robinson, The New York Times
Raymond Carver pioneered a precisionist realism reinventing the American short story during the eighties. Set in trailer parks and shopping malls, they are stories of banal lives that turn on a seemingly insignificant detail. As well as being a master of the short story, he was an accomplished poet publishing several highly acclaimed volumes.
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