All the stories in Cathedral are different; some funny, some hauntingly sad. Each has its own individual and curious power' Daily Telegraph
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first short stories appeared in Esquire during Gordon Lish's tenure as fiction editor in the 1970s. Carver's work began to reach a wider audience with the 1976 publication of Will You Please be Quiet, Please, but it was not until the 1981 publication of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love under Gordon Lish, then at Knopf, that he began to achieve real literary fame. This collection was edited by more than 40 per cent before publication, and Carver dedicated it to his fellow writer and future wife, Tess Gallagher, with the promise that he would one day republish his stories at full length. He went on to write two more collections of stories, Cathedral and Elephant, which moved away from the earlier minimalist style into a new expansiveness, as well as several collections of poetry. He died in 1988, aged fifty.
The twelve stories collected in his book Cathedral are remarkable
for the originality of vision which he manages to convey in
scrupulously simple prose. Carver's is a considerable and an
enterprising talent
*Guardian*
Cathedral ought to establish his reputation as one of the most
original new voices in fiction to appear from the United States for
many years
*Times Literary Supplement*
Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty, utterly
free of pretence and affection, 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*
An important book in a unique career
*New York Review of Books*
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