Raymond Carver: Cathedral [2009] paperback Condition:Very Good 'He has a rare physical

'He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place

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Raymond Carver: Cathedral [2009] paperback Condition:Very Good 'He has a rare physicalRaymond 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