![]() First edition cover, 1983 | |
Author | Raymond Carver |
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Language | English |
Genre | Short story |
Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | 1983 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 228 |
813/.54 | |
LC Class | PS3553.A7894 C3 1983 |
Cathedral is the third major-press collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, published in 1983. [1] It received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [2]
Cathedral was enthusiastically received by critics. In The New York Times book Review, critic Irving Howe wrote:
Mr. Carver has been mostly a writer of strong but limited effects - the sort of writer who shapes and twists his material to a high point of stylization. In his newest collection of stories, Cathedral, there are a few that suggest he is moving toward a greater ease of manner and generosity of feeling; but in most of his work it's his own presence, the hard grip of his will, that is the strongest force. It's not that he imposes moral or political judgments; in that respect, he's quite self-effacing. It's that his abrupt rhythms and compressions come to be utterly decisive." [3]
The Washington Post wrote that "there are no arid places in Cathedral. Instead there are a dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life." [4]
The collection contains the following stories:
![]() First edition cover, 1983 | |
Author | Raymond Carver |
---|---|
Language | English |
Genre | Short story |
Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | 1983 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 228 |
813/.54 | |
LC Class | PS3553.A7894 C3 1983 |
Cathedral is the third major-press collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, published in 1983. [1] It received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [2]
Cathedral was enthusiastically received by critics. In The New York Times book Review, critic Irving Howe wrote:
Mr. Carver has been mostly a writer of strong but limited effects - the sort of writer who shapes and twists his material to a high point of stylization. In his newest collection of stories, Cathedral, there are a few that suggest he is moving toward a greater ease of manner and generosity of feeling; but in most of his work it's his own presence, the hard grip of his will, that is the strongest force. It's not that he imposes moral or political judgments; in that respect, he's quite self-effacing. It's that his abrupt rhythms and compressions come to be utterly decisive." [3]
The Washington Post wrote that "there are no arid places in Cathedral. Instead there are a dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life." [4]
The collection contains the following stories: