RAYMOND CARVER’SCATHEDRAL

“An important book in a unique career.”

—The New York Review of Books

“Like Edward Hopper, whose landscape his characters inhabit, Carver depicts a frozen world, blue-shadowed, where time is the betrayer of lives.”

—Vogue

“It’s impossible to ignore Carver’s immense talent … In Cathedral he succeeds, seemingly without effort, in weaving the illusion that his characters are not only real but representative.”

—David Lehman, Newsweek

“Carver’s cadence is his own, but it stirs memories of Ernest Hemingway at his best.”

—The Seattle Post Intelligencer

“Fully expressive of what we think of as the Carver vision yet so expansive in its concerns and achievements that it creates the potential for a new phase in what is already a significant body of work.”

—The Houston Chronicle

“Carver’s minimal art achieves maximal effects.… In the paradoxically lyric way of the minimalist writer, Carver has not only made sense of this world, he has given it value.”

—The Boston Review

“Written in the simplest of styles, mirroring the language of everyday, [these stories] possess an awesome mesmerizing power. Out of the moments when good luck runs out, Carver makes the highest art.”

—Dan Cryer, Newsday