Books : Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories
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by: Raymond Carver
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780002713375
Format: Import
ISBN: 0002713373
Label: The Harvill Press
Manufacturer: The Harvill Press
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: November 01, 1993
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Sales Rank: 3450738
Studio: The Harvill Press
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Rating:  - Carver, a master of conversation, simple conversation!
The gut of Raymond Carver's stories is that of conversation, simple everyday conversation between common folk in common places. He makes the reader feel that you are the spectator, the ear, the friend. He titles the stories with a simple line of text from the heart of the story. It makes it interesting to find the title in each story. And each story reveals the depth of humanity, its issues, and the mystery below the surface. And the people are down on their luck, jobless, alcoholics, ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Stories
Raymond Carver is one of my favorite American writers. Here in Japan, R.Carver is known by the effort of Haruki Murakami's translation and I also became a R.C. fan through his works.
I think Haruki's translation is excellent but I prefer to read in original texts in spite of lack of my command of English. These short stories are full of heartrending sorrows, clumsiness of men and women, and shapes of love.
Rating:  - Phota stories
Have you ever had one of those Blair moments when after weeks of being nice to everyone you have to finally make a decision which means that enemies are made as they see a must have dismissed? Well this is one of those moments. I have been struggling with Raymond Carver's "Where I'm Calling From" a collection of thirty-seven stories chosen from several previous collections published over 20 odd years which should therefore be an ideal introduction to his work. And... wait for it... I am going to ... Read More
Rating: - Paeans to a lived life
Despite occasional accusations of obscurity or frustrating spareness, there's a reason Carver's work stands so highly in opinion: the author's ability to deliver through the written word that which lies at the center of what it means to be a human being, as in being in the world. Anyone who has lived a semblance of a life, and whose ability to form mental connections hasn't been cripplingly truncated, will see in Carver's work the essence of human existence, or at least of experienced existence. This ... Read More
Rating: - "Who knows why we do what we do?"
It's awfully hard to live up to praise - especially when said acknowledgments include "one of the great short story writers of our time - of any time" and comparisons to the great Hemingway himself (considered by many to be the all-time master of the form). Happily, Raymond Carver's estimable work stands up to the plaudits.
"Where I'm calling from" is a collection of Carver's work from four of his previous story collections with seven all-new stories to round out the volume. Originally ... Read More
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