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| Original Title: | Cathedral |
| ISBN: | 0679723692 (ISBN13: 9780679723691) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1984), O. Henry Award for 'A Small, Good Thing' (1983), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1983), Washington State Book Award (1984) |
Raymond Carver
Paperback | Pages: 230 pages Rating: 4.28 | 26550 Users | 1427 Reviews
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| Title | : | Cathedral |
| Author | : | Raymond Carver |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 230 pages |
| Published | : | June 18th 1989 by Vintage Contemporaries (first published September 15th 1983) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Literature |
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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 career 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).From the eBook edition.
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Ratings: 4.28 From 26550 Users | 1427 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books Cathedral
On Christmas Eve, 1989, I sat in my room as snow fell outside. I was 20 years old. That night, I read this book cover-to-cover. I didn't mean to---Carver's voice and characters just grabbed hold of me and wouldn't let go. It's one of the few books I've ever read in one sitting. These characters, I found, weren't like 'made-up' people from most other fiction I'd read up to that time. They were my friends, neighbors, coworkers---and to some extent, me. Upon completing Cathedral, I was certain ofThis is the collection where Carver shakes off the label of "minimalist".His previous editor, Gordon Lish, was known for paring Carver's stories down to the bone. But in this collection, free from Lish's pencil, he is able to be more expansive. The stories still concern average shmoes living clumsy lives, but now Carver gives himself the space for more incident. More emotional nuance. Not only that, but he's funnier, and he was fairly funny to begin with.I read a volume of his poems recently.
I read "Cathedral", the titular short story in this collection. The narrator and his wife are visited by Robert, a longtime friend and past employer of the wife. The narrator is meeting Robert for the first time and feels superior because Robert is blind.The story has a theme about seeing with one's eyes contrasted with seeing and understanding things below the surface. Robert may be blind, but he has the deeper understanding.
Our Favorite Faded FantasiesCarver winds and unwinds the silken threads which hold us together, our essential vulnerability as human beings, our failures, our disappointments. What I have loved about this set of stories is their tenderness and silence. Men and women are explored in a discreet, subtle writing style that is very effective. It implies and leaves much to the imagination but in a way that is not cerebral at all; rather the things Carver leaves unsaid are those we understand to the
Perfection. Every story in this collection is gold. Raymond Carver is on another level when it comes to writing stories that encapsulate real life and real people, especially the ones who are so often skipped over in literature. There is darkness here, but also hope. Out of the three collections of Carver's I have read, this one had the most redemption. My favorites: A Small, Good Thing - I don't often cry, while reading or any other time really, but by the end of this story I had shed a few
English (Cathedral) / ItalianoThis collection of twelve stories by Raymond Carver is the perfect example of how to compromise the reader's frame of mind by talking about daily events. Thanks also to a minimal prose, Carver has the great virtue of guessing more than any other author that the everyday and the ordinary, such as a home accident, a watch robbery or even the death are the most familiar events that bind us to life. The result is an emotional earthquake in the reader. Among the twelve
I had no Idea who Raymond Carver was before I picked this collection of short stories. Of course, I asked the great oracles of the Internet to feed me information about him, and they told me that Mr.Carver is one of the American literary gods who revived the dying short story literary form in the 80s. My primary concern was for the short story medium that almost died in the 80s, and don't worry, I checked and they are thriving nowadays.As I read Carver's stories, I understood that he is a
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