Catedral
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789725649145
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: Quetzal
Pages no: 256
Edition language: Portuguese
wonderful characterisations but content? zzzzzzzz
Extraordinary writing, so simple and wonderfully crafted. If nothing else, read this just to enjoy great writing.
As it usually happens, I subjectively liked some stories more than others. It has nothing to do with Mr. Carver's obvious talent and keen eye for the little details life is made of. It might be just me, but I felt that in almost all stories there's a strange feeling of loneliness and alienation, as ...
OK, so the craft and the talent behind these stories is undoubted, but there was very little about them to love.They were mostly about endings, and people keeping on anyway. Sometimes they had a shred of hope like in the title story or "Where I'm Calling From", but mostly it was about keeping your h...
On the whole I liked this collection better than "What we talk about...". I see myself reading both collections again I just felt there was more humanity in this collection.The real experience here was the story "A Small, Good Thing". This seems to be one of the examples of story restored to pre-L...
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