Fires - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Raymond Carver (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 <i>What We Talk About When We Talk About Love--</i>are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver's literary development.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>You should read <i>Fires</i> now. These stories and poems...show the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold. <p/>--<i>San Francisco Chronicle<br></i><br>Seminal in Carver studies...A disparate collection of work bound by a unity of vision and obsession. <p/>--<i>Los Angeles Herald Examiner<br></i><br>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; <i>Fires</i> reveals the arc of his purposeful flight. <p/>--<i>The Boston Globe</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, <i>Will You Please Be Quiet, Please</i> (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by <i>What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, </i> <i>Cathedral</i> (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and <i>Where I'm Calling From</i> in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of <i>A New Path to the Waterfall.</i>
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