Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

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...