In 1975 he immigrated to Canada, working in a bank to support himself while studying English and philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he received a second bachelor's degree in 1984. ... It again reached the shortlist for the Booker Prize and received various awards. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1975 he immigrated to Canada, working in a bank to support himself while studying English and philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he received a second bachelor's degree in 1984. ... It again reached the shortlist for the Booker Prize and received various awards. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This volume was very well-received by critics and readers alike, receiving nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. ... Adam Meyer, in his book, Raymond Carver, argues that "Carver is at the height of his powers here, having arrived at his full maturity, and Cathedral as a whole is certainly the most impressive of his collections." ... The book marked a shift in Carver's fiction away from the bare minimalist prose of his earlier work toward a fuller, more detailed style. Critics hailed the book as a transition in Carver's work, singling out s...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School