PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780099530336
- Categories BX, BXOS, Classics and Literary, extraordinary, F LIT, Fiction, IM1, Literary Fiction
- Author(s) Raymond Carver
- Publisher Vintage
- Pages 214
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 12.8cm x 1.5cm x 19.7cm
- Weight 0.19 kg
product 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.