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    The Stonemason

    A Play in Five Acts

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    Author Cormac McCarthy
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Aug 01, 1995 | 144 Pages | 9780679762805
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    From a writer hailed as an American original comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African-American family. Set in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s, the Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations. Out of the love that binds Ben Telfair and his grandfather, Papaw, and the gulf that separates them from the Telfairs who have forsake and dishonored the family trade, 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.
    © Beowulf Sheehan
    The novels of the American writer Cormac McCarthy have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. View titles by Cormac McCarthy
    "McCarthy has achieved something only a few artists even attempt: He has created his own world...and made it his own—beautiful, nightmarish, isolated." —Wall Street Journal

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    From a writer hailed as an American original comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African-American family. Set in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s, the Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations. Out of the love that binds Ben Telfair and his grandfather, Papaw, and the gulf that separates them from the Telfairs who have forsake and dishonored the family trade, 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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    © Beowulf Sheehan
    The novels of the American writer Cormac McCarthy have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. View titles by Cormac McCarthy

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    "McCarthy has achieved something only a few artists even attempt: He has created his own world...and made it his own—beautiful, nightmarish, isolated." —Wall Street Journal

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