Name: The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
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Author: McCarthy, Cormac
ISBN: 9780679762805

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Cormac McCarthy

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.4 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN

0679762809

ISBN13

9780679762805

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts "

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.

Cormac McCarthy

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(Rhode Island, 1933 - 2023 New Mexico) spent much of his childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, where his first four novels are set. By 1965, he began to attract international critical attention with The Orchard Keeper, for which he won the Faulkner Award.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road and the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses. He is considered one of the four major American novelists of his time. His dense prose is categorized within the Southern Gothic genre for its stylistic complexity and the darkness and violence it presents. His books Outer Dark, Child of God, and Suttree, have been compared to the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

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