The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts Paperback - 1995
by Cormac McCarthy
Set in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s, The Stonemason is a multi-generational drama about black men struggling to maintain their dignity. The drama evokes the subtleties of Grecian tragedy with the mastery of character, plot, and pathos that distinguishes the acclaimed fiction of this recent National Book Award winner.
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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.
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- Title The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
- Author Cormac McCarthy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Inte
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-08-01
- ISBN 9780679762805 / 0679762809
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.29 x 0.38 in (20.40 x 13.44 x 0.97 cm)
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Themes
- Geographic Orientation: Kentucky
- Library of Congress subjects Fathers and sons, African American men
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95013084
- Dewey Decimal Code 812.54
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