Cathedral by Raymond Carver

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To my mind, the twelve short stories here represent the densest collection of quintessential Carver -- the man who single-handedly revived the American short story and returned the form to eminence during the 1970s and 1980s. Cathedral contains pieces such as A Small, Good Thing," Carver's most famous and widely anthologized story, (and one of the batch that was adapted into the poly-plotted Robert Altman movie Short Cuts). But Cathedral also has other memorable pieces -- stories I think are ever better, like Feathers, Fever, Where I'm Calling From and the title story.


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.

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