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Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose

10 best books like Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose (Raymond Carver): Reasons to Live, Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories, Back in the World, Distortions, The Point and Other Stories, Harmony of the World: Stories, Letting Loose the Hounds: Stories, Dancing After Hours, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life

Reasons to Live
AuthorAmy Hempel
ISBN0060976721
It is always "earthquake weather" in Amy Hempel's California, a landscape where everything can change without warning. Traditional resources—home, parents, lovers, friends, even willpower—are not dependable. And so the characters in these short, compelling stories have learned to depend...
Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories
AuthorAnna Kavan
ISBN0393302849
‘Whatever I am, I’m among the lost things—I do know that.’

To enter the works of Anna Kavan is to enter a swirling, menacing reality where inexorable doom weighs heavy through each word. Each story in Julia and the Bazooka is comprised of a thinly-fictionalized version of Kavan’s...
Back in the World
AuthorTobias Wolff
ISBN0679767967
To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories...
Distortions
AuthorAnn Beattie
ISBN0679732357
Anne Beattie is one of that school of '70s and '80s writers who painted ordinary America with miniature-level detail, and who marked American realism's last bright point before its long, steady decline into mawkish middle-class self-obsession. Beattie's stories are, above all else, cold and sad...
The Point and Other Stories
AuthorCharles D'Ambrosio
ISBN0316171255
I purchased this book after reading one of the short stories ("Her Real Name") in a fiction anthology. The story was so incredible that I wanted to read everything that I could find by the same author. (I ordered his other book, The Dead Fish Museum, at the same time. I have already read it and reviewed it.)

This...
Harmony of the World: Stories
AuthorCharles Baxter
ISBN0679776516
In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings--and occasional fragile joys--seem utterly unprecedented, even as he reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that everything they feel is only the collateral damage of being human. Whether...
Letting Loose the Hounds: Stories
AuthorBrady Udall
ISBN0393335542
“Funny, unpredictable, and abounding with strange beauty . . . a fierce new voice of the American West.”—Outside

Exploding with an unsettling exuberance, Brady Udall’s stories traverse a geography of lost love, fragmented lives, and satisfying revenge. From the night a six-foot-three...
Dancing After Hours
AuthorAndre Dubus
ISBN0679751149
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and...
Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories
AuthorSaul Bellow
ISBN0140189459
In six darkly comic tales, Saul Bellow presents the human experience in all its preposterousness, poignancy, and pathos. The stories, which include "Leaving the Yellow House," "The Old System," "Looking for Mr. Green," "The Gonzaga Manuscripts," and "A Father-to-Be," reflect Bellow s ability...
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
AuthorCarol Sklenicka
The first biography of America’s best-known short story writer of the late twentieth century.The London Times called Raymond Carver "the American Chekhov." The beloved, mischievous, but more modest short-story writer and poet thought of himself as "a lucky man" whose renunciation of alcohol...
The Hermit's Story
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0618380442
The Hermit’s Story is Rick Bass's best and most varied fiction yet. In the title story, a man and a woman travel across an eerily frozen lake—under the ice. “The Distance” casts a skeptical eye on Thomas Jefferson through the lens of a Montana man’s visit to Monticello. “Eating” begins...
A Multitude of Sins
AuthorRichard Ford
One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures.

With remarkable insight and honesty, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage....
First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories
AuthorHarold Brodkey
ISBN0805060103
Originally published in 1958, First Love and Other Sorrows won Harold Brodkey widespread acclaim and announced a brilliant new arrival on the literary scene. Brodkey was hailed as an 'unusually gifted writer' (The Atlantic) and a 'rich talent' (San Francisco Chronicle), whose stories read like...
Emperor of the Air
AuthorEthan Canin
ISBN0618004149
EMPEROR OF THE AIR "explores tricky family relationships and tender moments of self-discovery with a voice of compassion rarely found in contemporary short fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle). Whether his characters are struggling to save trees in their yards, their marriages, or themselves,...
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