From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family.
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 Mc Carthy 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..
The Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations.
The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s.
From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family
