"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