# Cathedral

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- Authors: [Raymond Carver](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-carver)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-11-05
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Short stories

## 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.

## Editions

### Cathedral

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0901-636-6
- Published: 2016-01-28
- Language: en_GB

### Cathedral

- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9953-033-6
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2009-11-05
- Language: en_GB

### Cathedral

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-369-1
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1989-06-18
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [Kathedrale](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-carver/de/kathedrale) (de_DE)
- [Catedral](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-carver/es/catedral) (es_ES)
- [Собор](https://www.bookquiver.com/raimond-karver/uk/sobor) (uk_UA)