Discuss "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver

The people have spoken. January's book will be "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver. We traditionally read a book of short stories for the first meeting of the year because we know how daunting the previous month can be. You can read one story or read them all. We also don't require you to read any to attend the meeting.

Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another.

It was morning in America when Raymond Carver's Cathedral came out in 1983, but the characters in this dry collection of short stories from the forgotten corners of land of opportunity didn't receive much sunlight. Nothing much happens to the subjects of Carver's fiction, which is precisely why they are so harrowing: nothingness is a daunting presence to overcome. And rarely do they prevail, but the loneliness and quiet struggle the characters endure provide fertile ground for literary triumph, particularly in the hands of Carver, who was perhaps in his best form with this effort. - via GoodReads

12 Stories
224 Pages