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The stonemason

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  • "The Stonemason is a profoundly moving drama set in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1970s, concerning several generations of a black family. McCarthy's narrator, Ben, reveals a painful episode in his family's history, grounding us at the same time in the beautiful dynamic between him and his grandfather, Papaw. Ben, Ben's father, and Papaw are all stonemasons, but in descriptions of "the trade" we learn as much about this family's capacity for love as we do about constructing sound foundations for houses, barns and bridges. Papaw's knowledge about stonemasonry is analogous to his deep spiritual wisdom, and Ben recognizes both as he looks back on his apprenticeship in the "trade at which I thought myself a master and of which I stood in darkest ignorance. And as I came to know him ... As I came to know him ... Oh I could hardly believe my good fortune. I swore then I'd cleave to that old man like a bride. I swore he'd take nothing to his grave.""
  • ""The setting is Lousiville, Kentucky in the 1970s. The Telfairs are four generations of an African American family of stonemasons. 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"--Page 4 of cover."

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  • "Manuscripts"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Theatertekst"
  • "Galley proofs"@en
  • "Domestic drama"
  • "Domestic drama"@en

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  • "The stonemason"@en
  • "The stonemason : a play in five acts"
  • "The stonemason : a play in five acts"@en
  • "The stonemason : a play in five acts"

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