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The short story "Cathedral" was included in the 1982 edition of Best American Short Stories.It is the final story in Carver's collection Cathedral (1983). "Cathedral" is generally considered to be one of Carver's finest works, displaying both his expertise in crafting a minimalist story and also writing about a catharsis with such simple storylines. [2]
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 .
Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River, and grew up in Yakima, Washington, the son of Ella Beatrice Carter (née Casey) and Clevie Raymond Carver. [4] His father, a sawmill worker from Arkansas , was a fisherman and a heavy drinker.
Pages in category "Short story collections by Raymond Carver" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Cathedral (short story collection) E.
"Chef's House" was originally published by The New Yorker magazine [1] in their November 30, 1981 issue, and was the first of Carver's stories to be published in the magazine. Later, it was published in the short story collections Cathedral in 1983 and Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories in 1988.
The bibliography of Raymond Carver consists of 72 short stories, 306 poems, a novel fragment, a one-act play, a screenplay co-written with Tess Gallagher, and 32 pieces of non-fiction (essays, a meditation, introductions, and book reviews).
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The author at a Eureka, California, book signing after the publication of her Carver biography in 2009. Carol Sklenicka (December 11, 1948) is an American biographer and literary scholar known for her authoritative, full-scale biographies of two important figures in late twentieth-century American literature: acclaimed short story masters Raymond Carver and Alice Adams.