**The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” ( *The New York Review of Books* )—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman. ** Raymond Carver’s America is … clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories…. [Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own, like no other except that very world, as Wordsworth said, which is the world to all of us. — *The New York Times Book Review*