A visual biography and at the same time a photographic mapping of a literary universe, in which the places of the past and the settings of the stories overlap, the people around the writer and the ghosts of his characters. First published in the United States in 1990 and now in Italian with a wider selection of pictures, it shows the places and people Raymond Carver then transposed into his masterly writing. "The book became a real story, both of Ray’s life as a man and a writer and of our life together as writers, lovers and collaborators. We added a selection of his letters, drafts and notebooks, the totem objects on his desk, and pictures of people who played a role in his life. Bob Adelman’s photographs capture tangibly an amalgam of feelings and psychic realities" (Tess Gallagher).