Cathedral'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