Cathedral
Author: Carver, Raymond
ISBN: 9780099530336
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2009
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
All the stories in Cathedral are different; some funny, some hauntingly sad. Each has its own individual and curious power' Daily Telegraph
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
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2009
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
All the stories in Cathedral are different; some funny, some hauntingly sad. Each has its own individual and curious power' Daily Telegraph
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.
