Short Synopsis
Raymond Carver's last collection, Where I'm Calling From, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.

Full Synopsis
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.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 thirty-seven stories give us a superb overview of Carver's life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.

"No fiction collection should be without this book." ---Library Journal

"Carver has the ability to render graceful prose from dreary, commonplace, scraping-the-bottom human misery." ---Publishers Weekly

"The great gift of this realist (no minimalist he) is the beauty of his best stories, in which a sort of bafflement is the buffer against very ordinary lives." ---New York Times

"Where I'm Calling From is the closest thing to definitive Carver." ---The Baltimore Sun

"Considered as an extended work, the book summarizes Carver's writing career and testifies to a literary achievement equaled only by the very best of modern American story writers-Hemingway, Welty, Salinger, Cheever. . . . Where he is calling from is the innermost region of the heart." ---San Francisco Chronicle