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 womans 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 Carvers work to a more confidently poetic style.

Binding: Paperback;224 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FC; Weight: 284 g; Dimensions: 197 x 134 x 15

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