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Cathedral

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things — a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring — with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of Cathedral in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see. Many view this story, and indeed this collection, as a watershed in the maturing of Carver's work to a more confidently poetic style.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 224
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-09-953033-6
  • EAN
  • 9780099530336
  • Release date
  • 2009