# Cathedral

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- Book: [Cathedral](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-carver/cathedral) ([Cathedral.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-carver/cathedral.md))
- Authors: [Raymond Carver](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-carver)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0901-636-6
- Published: 2016-01-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.