Cattedrale by Raymond Carver
A spare, quietly powerful collection of short stories about ordinary people whose lives are shaped by alcoholism, failed marriages, loneliness and small acts of kindness; the prose focuses on everyday detail and withheld emotion, building toward terse but affecting moments of insight in which characters briefly connect or open up. The pieces consistently explore communication breakdown and modest epiphanies, most notably in the collection’s best-known story where a skeptical, emotionally closed narrator experiences a surprising, transcendent shift while drawing with a blind houseguest, learning to see beyond his own narrow perspective.
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- Published
- 1983
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-250
- Original Language
- English
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