Cathedral

Name: Cathedral
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Raymond Carver
ISBN: 9781515984542

Author: Raymond Carver

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/16/2017

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

This is 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. The twelve stories in Cathedral 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).

About Raymond Carver

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 August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luca on February 02, 2020

English (Cathedral) / Italiano This 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......more

Goodreads review by Vit on February 05, 2021

The ways others live often are a surprise to us… The peacock walked quickly around the table and went for the baby. It ran its long neck across the baby’s legs. It pushed its beak in under the baby’s pajama top and shook its stiff head back and forth. The baby laughed and kicked its feet. Scooting on......more

Goodreads review by Lea on January 22, 2023

Carver, a patron saint of postmodernism realism, is a great master of perfectly capturing the reader with snapshots of the completely ordinary misery of working-class Americans. What John Willams and perhaps Seethaler do in novels of mundane desperation intertwined with unusual peace, he manages to......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on June 11, 2017

American author Raymond Carver (1938-1988) - master of the short-story A dozen Raymond Carver stories collected here as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series. Since other reviewers have commented on all twelve, I’ll share some short-short cuts from the title story, my reflections on Carver......more

Goodreads review by Dave on April 26, 2025

After two collections of beautifully written, lean but grim and mercilessly sad working class stories, Carver lets the reins loose a bit in this 1983 collection, allowing some of the stories to expand just a bit, in various ways. Almost all of the stories in Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976)......more