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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 womans 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 Carvers work to a more confidently poetic style....