Jodie Foster's Bookshelf

O, The Oprah Magazine | From the September 2005 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Cathedral
By Raymond Carver

Carver is the king of minimalism, and these short stories are some of his leanest. He writes characters who are completely unaware of their own motivations or the significance of their actions. They just live and don't ask why. As an actress and reader, I love the discipline of spare characterizations. You soak up the few details offered and do the work to figure out the characters yourself.

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