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.
| ISBN: | 9780099530336 |
| Publication date: | 5th November 2009 |
| Author: | Raymond Carver |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 214 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Shorter Reads Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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.
Cathedral features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Shorter Reads, Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Cathedral was written by Raymond Carver and published by Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House
Cathedral has 214 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage Classics series
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