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