Description

From the writer praised being an American original -- and mcdougal of the national bestsellers All of the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a tight, expansively imagined crisis about four years of an African American family.The environment is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have now been for decades. Bill Telfair has quit his training to apprentice herself to his grandpa, Papaw, a guy who understands that "accurate masonry isn't held together by concrete but,by the twist of the planet." Out-Of the love that binds both of these guys and the gulf that divides them in the Telfairs who've forsaken -- or disregarded -- the household industry, Cormac McCarthy has designed a crisis that contains all of the hallmarks of his excellent hype: exact statement of the real world; vocabulary that's the chunk of typical talk and the pressure of Scriptural writing; and an amazing command of the-art of storytelling.