The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679762805)

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road and the bestselling Border Trilogy comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an 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.

Look for Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Passenger.

Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN-10: 0679762809
ISBN-13: 9780679762805
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1995
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.29w x 0.38d

About the Author
Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright who has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A number of his works have been adapted into films, including All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and the four-time Academy Award-winning No Country for Old Men.