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  Cathedral (Paperback) By (author) Raymond Carver

  

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  Short Description for CathedralIn the title story of this collection of twelve, which established Carver's reputation as a master story teller, the hand of a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 04 September 2003
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780099449850 ISBN 10: 0099449854
  • Sales rank: 58,985

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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.