Cathedral by Raymond Carver [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1989 • Vintage Contemporaries • 1st Print!

Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver 

TRADE PAPERBACK [1989] VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

*First printing of this 1989 second Vintage Contemporaries edition w/ illustrated cover. 

Book is in very good condition.   Cover shows some mild shelf and edge wear.   Reads beautifully with a hint of tanning to pages.

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 career 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).