Cathedral

ISBN-13: 9780099530336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str.

Raymond Carver

Opis

This anthology, which includes the stories 'Vitamins' and 'A Small Good Thing', firmly established Carver's reputation as the master storyteller of his generation. Carver is also the author of 'Short Cuts', 'Fires' and 'No Heroics, Please'.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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.