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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.
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Cathedral, Raymond Carver
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- Released
- 2003
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- Title
- Cathedral
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Raymond Carver
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0099449854
- ISBN13
- 9780099449850
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Family, Short Stories, Friendship, Stories, Literary Fiction, Marriage, Fate
- First published
- 1983
- Original title
- Cathedral
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- 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.