The short stories with PDF links are noted below. My favorite Carver volume is Collected Stories. This has all the best Raymond Carver short stories, including early versions of some for comparison.
Many Raymond Carver short stories have a spare style, and deal with the lives of ordinary people. Raymond Carver short stories are often classed as minimalism and dirty realism. I think “Cathedral” is one of the most frequently anthologized stories, if my books are any indication. Below, you’ll find many of the best Raymond Carver short stories. Raymond Carver is one of the best known short story writers ever. Review of The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.Books for Elementary and Middle School Students.Short Stories: Characters in Conflict by John Warriner.Collections and Anthologies for Middle School.This is a work I wished I had read myself, rather than listened to here. While he does choose to alter his voice for some characters' dialogue (very slightly), and throw in an inflection when a character is raising their voice (again, slightly), overall, I feel he's only been able to accomplish sucking the emotion out of each of these pieces, leaving behind what sounds like to me a recitation of individual words wholly unconcerned with the word that came before it, or that comes after.
Particularly, the insistent, unvaried rhythm he reads at paints Carver's stories as monotonous rather than restrained. Norman Dietz reads through the prose as if he's reading a dictionary. I simply found the choice for the performance of this work to be overwhelmingly distracting, rather than effective.
It’s the story of how a man’s perspective about blind people changes dramatically when he meets an extraordinary blind man who introduces him to a new realm of experience. This story was included in the ‘Best American Short Stories’ (1982). I appreciate that with recordings of work, the performer has the license to perform the work in the way they see fit, presumably in a way that might help the listener understand the nuance of the writing. Cathedral is a short story written by Raymond Carver.
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