A Small, Good Thing Summary
Raymond Carver

A Small, Good Thing Summary

“A Small, Good Thing,” an award-winning story by American short story writer and poet, Raymond Carver, was published in Carver's third major collection of stories, Cathedral, in 1983. In his first two collections, Carver had established himself as a new and compelling voice in American literature and a master of the short story form. In Cathedral, he took his craft to new levels of insight into the human condition. “A Small, Good Thing” is...

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