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Jun 18, 1989 | ISBN 9780679722397 Buy
May 25, 2015 | ISBN 9781101970621 Buy
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Jun 18, 1989 | ISBN 9780679722397
May 25, 2015 | ISBN 9781101970621
More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories—later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love—are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver’s literary development.
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize… More about Raymond Carver
“You should read Fires now. These stories and poems…show the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Seminal in Carver studies…A disparate collection of work bound by a unity of vision and obsession.”—Los Angeles Herald Examiner“Carver’s most revealing book…This collection confirms the worth of Raymond Carver’s work…Like bright birds in distant trees, Carver’s stories appear in flashes, glimpses; Fires reveals the arc of his purposeful flight.”—The Boston Globe
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