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Staff Pick
In Cathedral, Carver’s third short story collection, he adds more detail and color to his bleak landscapes, and the unrelenting misery of his characters abates a bit. There’s a breath of possibility in every story, a beam of light that illuminates and pierces the heart of the reader, and it’s those moments of illumination that grab me every time I read through Cathedral. Recommended By Mary Jo S., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Stories included:
"Feathers"
"Chef's House"
"Preservation"
"The Compartment"
"A Small, Good Thing"
"Vitamins"
"Careful"
"Where I'm Calling From"
"The Train"
"Fever"
"The Bridle"
"Cathedral"
Review
"A dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life...Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty...his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart." Washington Post Book World
Review
"Cathedral contains astonishing achievements, which bespeaks a writer expanding his range of intentions." Boston Globe
Review
"A few of Mr. Carver's stories can already be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction...Cathedral shows a gifted writer struggling for a larger scope of reference, a finer touch of nuance." The New York Times Book Review
Review
"Clear, hard language so right that we shiver at the knowledge we gain from it." Chicago Tribune Book World
Review
"Carver is more than a realist; there is, in some of his stories, a strangeness, the husk of a myth." Los Angeles Times
Synopsis
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - Twelve short stories that mark a turning point in the work of "one of the true American masters" (The New York Review of Books). "A writer of astonishing compassion and honesty ... His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart." --The Washington Post Book World
A remarkable collection that includes the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories "overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life." --The Washington Post Book World
Synopsis
Raymond Carver s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver s work and overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life. . . . Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty. . . . his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World).
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About the Author
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in August of that year, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.
Table of Contents
Feathers
Chef's House
Preservation
The Compartment
A Small, Good Thing
Vitamins
Careful
Where I'm Calling From
The Train
Fever
The Bridle
Cathedral