Sunday, November 8, 2020

DECEMBER BOOK

Our book for December is Cathedral (link), a short story collection by noted American writer Raymond Carver (wiki link).  Robert Altman's film Short Cuts is based on several of Carver's short stories.  We'll be going back to a ZOOM meeting format for Tuesday, December 1 with the usual 7pm starting time.  Please check the comments section for a ZOOM invite.  Newbies, family members and pets are all welcome to join the proceedings.  Note:  the entirety of Cathedral is included in Raymond Carver: The Collected Stories (The Library of America edition).  Stay safe everyone.


         

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.  These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver's work and "overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life. . . . Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty. . . . his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart" (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World).

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