The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts

by Cormac Mccarthy

2021-01-01 09:31:21

From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family.The setting is Louisvil... Read more
From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family.

The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations. Ben Telfair has given up his education to apprentice himself to his grandfather, Papaw, a man who knows that "true masonry is not held together by cement but...by the warp of the world." Out of the love that binds these two men and the gulf that separates them from the Telfairs who have forsaken -- or dishonored -- the family trade, Cormac McCarthy has crafted a drama that bears all the hallmarks of his great fiction: precise observation of the physical world; language that has the bite of common speech and the force of Biblical prose; and a breathtaking command of the art of storytelling. Less

Book Details

File size7.96 X 5.18 X 0.4 in
Print pages144
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date August 1, 1995
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679762805
Cormac McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, two plays, two screenplays and three short-stories, spanning t...

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
Indigo Books & Music In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy CAD 18.78
Indigo Books & MusicIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy CAD 18.78
Available Discount
No Discount available

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free