# Elephant

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- Book: [Elephant](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-carver/elephant) ([Elephant.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-carver/elephant.md))
- Authors: [Raymond Carver](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-carver)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9953-035-0
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2009-11-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.