'The Bridle' - Marge, a woman who supervises an apartment building in Arizona with her husband Harley, tells the story about a family that moves into an apartment after being displaced from their farm in Minnesota.'Fever' - Carlyle has trouble finding a babysitter after his wife leaves him and the kids for California.'The Train' - Miss Dent waits in a train station late at night after she used a gun to force a man to kneel and plead for his life.' Where I'm Calling From' - At Frank Martin's drying out facility with JP, Tiny, and other residents.'Careful' - Lloyd and wife Inez are living separately but she helps him with a problem.

'Vitamins' - Patti decides to sell vitamins door-to-door.'A Small, Good Thing' - An extended version of his earlier short story 'The Bath'.'The Compartment' - Myers, vacationing in Europe, takes a train to meet his son, who he hasn't seen in eight years.'Preservation' - Sandy's husband has taken to the sofa since he lost his job as a roofer three months before.' Chef's House' - Wes rents Chef's house by the ocean and asks wife Edna to come live with him again.'Feathers' - A couple visit another couple who have a peacock and a baby.The collection contains the following stories: Instead there are a dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.' The stories The Washington Post wrote that 'there are no arid places in Cathedral. It's that his abrupt rhythms and compressions come to be utterly decisive.' It's not that he imposes moral or political judgments in that respect, he's quite self-effacing. 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. 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 The New York Times book Review, critic Irving Howe wrote: Reception Ĭathedral was enthusiastically received by critics. Cathedral is the third major-press collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, published in 1983.

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