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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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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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

Remembering Cormac McCarthy

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy died on June 13th, 2023 of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was eighty-nine years old. His death was confirmed by his son, John McCarthy. McCarthy was one of the world’s most influential and renowned writers, His career spanned nearly six decades and several genres,

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