“Carver’s writing career [is] a literary achievement equaled only by the very best of modern American story writers—Hemingway, Welty, Salinger, Cheever.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
“One of the great short story writers of our time—of any time.”
— The Philadelphia Inquirer
“With painful, funny acuteness, Carver captures the electric currents that shoot through people’s lives and singe them indelibly.”
— Newsweek
“Nearly 200 years ago, Wordsworth and Coleridge started a revolution when they proclaimed their aim to write in ‘the language really used by men.’ Neither of them quite achieved that … Raymond Carver has. And it is terrifying.”
— The Nation
“Clear, hard language so right that we shiver at the knowledge we gain from it.”
— Chicago Tribune Book World
B OOKS BY R AYMOND C ARVER
FICTION
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Furious Seasons and Other Stories
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Cathedral
Where I’m Calling From
POETRY
Near Klamath
Winter Insomnia
At Night the Salmon Move
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water
Ultramarine
A New Path to the Waterfall
PROSE AND POETRY
Fires: Essays, Poems, and Stories
POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED
Short Cuts: Selected Stories
Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
All of Us: The Collected Poems