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No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings

A VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES ORIGINAL

A literary event: Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the recently discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death and published here in book form for the first time.

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Call If You Need Meincludes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver's mature writing and give his devoted readers a final glimpse of the great writer at work. The pure pleasure of Carver's writing is everywhere in his work, here no less than in those stories that have alreadey entered the canon of modern literature.

Genre
literary fiction
Setting
1990s
Subject
biographyliterary criticism
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 239 pages
Form
short storiesessayspoetry

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