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Title: The Stonemason : A Play In Five Acts by CORMAC MCCARTHY ISBN: 0-88001-359-1 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thank God for Cormac McCarthy
Comment: I don't usually read plays, but I bought this one because, after finishing _Cities of the Plain_, I had read all of Cormac McCarthy's novels and was hungry for more. I was not disappointed. McCarthy's genius is no less evident in _The Stonemason_ than in any of his longer works; if anything, the shorter format of drama allows him to pack even more of his brilliant writing into every page. Many authors are said to have "an ear for dialogue"; McCarthy is the only one I know, of whom this is unquestionably true. Perhaps this explains the effortlessness with which he switches between his usual milieu (novels about white cowboys and outlaws) to the material in this book (a play about black craftsmen). Any more praise I can give to this work, and to McCarthy's other writings, cannot convey the tremendous power -- the sadness and joy - that one experiences in reading them. I only hope he still has some more books left in him.
Rating: 5
Summary: Faulkner pales
Comment: This is one of the finest books I've ever read. I've heard McCarthy compared with William Faulkner, and perhaps without Faulkner, we wouldn't have McCarthy. But, nowhere in Faulkner, or any other writer, have I encountered such fearless and unencumbered writing; such clarity. It is barely noticable that it's written in play form. Ancient and completely familiar; the writing is just like the simplicity, weight and gravity of the stone he describes.
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Title: The Gardener's Son by CORMAC MCCARTHY ISBN: 0880014814 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy ISBN: 0679728724 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy ISBN: 0679728732 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Suttree by Cormac McCarthy ISBN: 0679736328 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Child of God by Cormac McCarthy ISBN: 0679728740 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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