The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.
"To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing": First Edition of The Stonemason; Inscribed by Cormac McCarthy
New York: Ecco Press, 1994.
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First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author, “For Jim and Brenda with love From Cormac.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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. "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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