Bibliographical Description
89.06.W063: Carver – Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
RAYMOND CARVER | [letters in negative space in printed black box 15.5 x 64 mm, i.e. letters not actually printed] FIRES | ESSAYS | POEMS | STORIES | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. • NEW YORK
104 leaves, pp. 1–13 14-21 22 23-27 28 29-39 40 41-47 48–52 53-71 72–74 75-79 80–82 83-98 99–100 101-127 128–131 132-139 140–141 142-143 144–145 146-156 157 158-163 164-165 166-171 172–173 174-183 184–185 186-204 [4]
Edition statement: Vintage Contemporaries Edition, June 1989
Contents: 1 half-title, 2 ‘ALSO BY RAYMOND CARVER’, 3 title-page, 4 imprint, 5 dedication ‘FOR TESS GALLAGHER’, 6 epigraph, 7-9 table of contents, 10 blank, 11-204 Fires: 11 section heading ‘[rule 12 mm] | ESSAYS | [rule 12 mm]’, 12 blank, 13-21 ‘[rule 42 mm] | MY FATHER’S LIFE’, 22-27 ‘[rule 42 mm] | ON WRITING’, 28-39 ‘[rule 42 mm] | FIRES’, 40-47 ‘[rule 42 mm] | JOHN GARDNER : THE WRITER AS TEACHER’, 48 blank, 49 section heading ‘[rule 12 mm] | ESSAYS | [rule 12 mm]’, 50 blank, 51 subsection heading ‘ONE’, 52 blank, 53 ‘DRINKING WHILE DRIVING’, 54-55 ‘LUCK’, 56-57 ‘DISTRESS SALE’, 58 ‘YOUR DOG DIES’, 59 ‘PHOTOGRAPH OF MY FATHER | IN HIS TWENTY-SECOND YEAR’, 60 ‘HAMID RAMOUZ (1818-1906)’, 61 ‘BANKRUPTCY’, 62 ‘THE BAKER’, 63 ‘IOWA SUMMER’, 64-65 ‘ALCOHOL’, 66-68 ‘FOR SEMRA, WITH MARTIAL VIGOR’, 69 ‘LOOKING FOR WORK’, 70 ‘CHEERS’, 71 ‘ROGUE RIVER JET-BOAT TRIP, | GOLD BEACH, OREGON, JULY 4, 1977’, 72 blank, 73 subsection heading ‘TWO’, 74 blank, 75-79 YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS | (an evening with Charles Bukowski), 80 blank, 81 subsection heading ‘THREE’, 82 blank, 83 ‘MORNING, THINKING OF EMPIRE’, 84-85 ‘THE BLUE STONES’, 86-87 ‘TEL AVIV AND LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI’, 88-89 ‘THE NEWS CARRIED TO MACEDONIA’, 90 ‘THE MOSQUE IN JAFFA’, 91 ‘NOT FAR FROM HERE’, 92 ‘SUDDEN RAIN’, 93 ‘BALZAC’, 94 ‘COUNTRY MATTERS’, 95 ‘THIS ROOM’, 96-97 ‘RHODES’, 98 ‘SPRING, 480 B.C., 99 subsection heading ‘FOUR’, 100 blank, 101 ‘NEAR KLAMATH’, 102 ‘AUTUMN’, 103 ‘WINTER INSOMNIA’, 104 ‘PROSSER’, 105 ‘AT NIGHT THE SALMON MOVE’, 106 ‘WITH A TELESCOPE ROD | ON COWICHE CREEK’, 107 ‘POEM FOR DR. PRATT, | A LADY PATHOLOGIST’, 108-109 ‘WES HARDIN : FROM A PHOTOGRAPH’, 110-111 ‘MARRIAGE’, 112 ‘THE OTHER LIFE’, 113 ‘THE MAILMAN AS CANCER PATIENT’, 114 ‘POEM FOR HEMINGWAY | & W.C. WILLIAMS’, 115 ‘TORTURE’, 116 ‘BOBBER’, 117 ‘HIGHWAY 99E FROM CHICO’, 118-119 ‘THE COUGAR’, 120 ‘THE CURRENT’, 121 ‘HUNTER’, 122 TRYING TO SLEEP LATE ON A | SATURDAY MORNING IN NOVEMBER’, 123 ‘LOUISE’, 124-125 POEM FOR KARL WALLENDA, | AERIALIST SUPREME’, 126 ‘DESCHUTES RIVER’, 127 ‘FOREVER’, 128 blank, 129 section heading ‘[rule 12 mm] | STORIES | [rule 12 mm]’, 130 blank, 131-139 ‘[rule 42 mm] |131-139 ‘[rule 42 mm] | DISTANCE’, 140 blank, 141-143 ‘[rule 42 mm] | THE LIE‘, 144 blank, 145-156 ‘[rule 42 mm] | THE CABIN‘, 157-163 ‘[rule 42 mm] | HARRY’S DEATH‘, 164 blank, 165-171 ‘[rule 42 mm] | THE PHEASANT‘, 172 blank, 173-183 ‘[rule 42 mm] | WHERE IS EVERYONE?‘, 184 blank, 185-204 ‘[rule 42 mm] | SO MUCH WATER SO CLOSE TO HOME‘, χ1a about the author, χ1b continuation of imprint, χ2a- χ2b ‘Also available from Vintage Contemporaries’.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Garnet Henderson; exterior author photo by Marion Ettlinger; display typography by Stephanie Bart-Horvath.
Copyright: © 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 by Raymond Carver; © 1983, 1984 by the Estate of Raymond Carver. ISBN: 0-679-72239-4 / 9780679722397. Price: U.S. $12.95 / CAN. $16.95. Fires was first published in different form by the Capra Press, 1983, and was previously published in softcover by Vintage Books, 1984.
Copies: JDP 1.79B8
Blurbs
- (front cover) He is one of the great short story writers of our time–of any time. – Philadelphia Inquirer
- “More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the amazingly gifted and 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.”
- 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. – Boston Globe