Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Cathedral by Raymond CarverRaymond 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

Why was she exiled

Staggeringly beautiful' Francesca Reece

Joyce's occasional verse includes the well-known "Ecce Puer

Monsieur Roscoe is going on holiday

Eilis knows she must go

illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed

distance and silence through a series of letters spanning twenty years

the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor

her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future

Amara comes to realise that everything in this city has its price

urban world might not have all the answers

Deronda's fortunes take a different turn