*From "one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time" (The Philadelphia Inquirer)--comes more than sixty stories, poems, and essays, including two early versions from the seminal collection, * What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

*From "one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time" (The Philadelphia Inquirer)--comes more than sixty stories, poems, and essays, including two early versions from the seminal collection, * What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

"Show[s] the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold." --* San Francisco Chronicle**A wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories that were later significantly revised in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love * appear here in their original form, revealing clearly the astounding process of Carver's literary development.