Andrea read and liked julieta's review of Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories:

"I have been thinking about what it is about these stories that make me kind of depressed. And what it is, I think, is that they talk so much about having had something good and lost it. Most of these characters have had something good in their lives,...more I have been thinking about what it is about these stories that make me kind of depressed. And what it is, I think, is that they talk so much about having had something good and lost it. Most of these characters have had something good in their lives, maybe a family, maybe something they believed in, like love or the possibility of a good life, and that is usually in the past.
But on the other hand, it is all told so well by Carver, he always knows what buttons to push, the details that he shows every time show a sense of humour in all that has been lost.
Yes, a little deppressing, but exact, and just plain great storytelling.

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