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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.
Beginners is the title given to the manuscript version of Raymond Carver's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, published with the permission of Carver's widow Tess Gallagher in 2009.
"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.
"Where I'm Calling From" is a short story by American author Raymond Carver. The story focuses on the effects of alcohol. Throughout this story Carver experiments with the use of quotation and meditates on the healing factors of storytelling. "Where I'm Calling From" was originally published by The New Yorker magazine in their March 15, 1982 issue.
Carver also selected the contents for the book Syracuse Poems and Stories 1980 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Department of English, Syracuse University, 1980). He also selected, along with Shannon Ravenel, the stories included in The Best American Short Stories 1986 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin , 1986) and edited American Short Story Masterpieces (New York ...
After writing "Errand", the last story in the book, Carver was diagnosed with lung cancer. He underwent surgery in October 1987 in Syracuse, New York, where doctors removed two-thirds of his left lung. [6] When the cancer returned in his brain in March 1988, Carver underwent a seven-week course of radiation therapy from April to May. [2]