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Carver is one of America's greatest short story writers. His style is spare, able to evoke feelings with the minimum amount of words. He writes about ordinary people, trying to find an elusive something through externals - through alcohol, marrying someone new, abstaining from alcohol, divorcing someone, trying to stay married (though this is often by accident). My favorite story is "Cathedral", about how the unnamed character transcends jealousy when his wife invites her former employer, a blind man, into their home.

  

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Chanpheng's reading in 2010 [View all] , chanpheng, Fri Jan-01-10 10:47 PM
  Book #1: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, chanpheng, Jan 03rd 2010, #1
Book #2: Brasyl by Ian McDonald, chanpheng, Jan 12th 2010, #2
Book #3: Wanting by Richard Flanagan, chanpheng, Jan 19th 2010, #3
Book #4: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, chanpheng, Jan 19th 2010, #4
Book #5: Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver, chanpheng, Jan 23rd 2010 #5
Book #6: The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood, chanpheng, Jan 31st 2010, #6
Book #7: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak, chanpheng, Feb 04th 2010, #7
Book #8: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, chanpheng, Feb 26th 2010, #8
Book #9: Arresting God In Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay, chanpheng, Feb 28th 2010, #9
Book #10: Beating Back the Devil by Maryn McKenna, chanpheng, Mar 03rd 2010, #10
Book #11: The Children's Book by A.S.Byatt, chanpheng, Mar 07th 2010, #11
Book #12: The City by Clifford D. Simak, chanpheng, Mar 13th 2010, #12
Book #13 Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus, chanpheng, Apr 09th 2010, #13
Book #14 Alejandro Blue by Monica Ali, chanpheng, Apr 09th 2010, #14
Book #15 Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing, chanpheng, Apr 09th 2010, #15
Book #16 Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie, chanpheng, Apr 09th 2010, #16
Book #17 Slant by Greg Bear, chanpheng, Apr 09th 2010, #17
Book #18: The Accidental by Ali Smith, chanpheng, Aug 07th 2010, #18
Book #19: Factory Girls by Lesie Chang, chanpheng, Aug 07th 2010, #19

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