The Stone that the Builder Refused
Madison Smartt Bell
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Description
The Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell's masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolution-the first successful slave revolution in history-which begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues with Master of the Crossroads. Each of these three novels can be read independently of the two others; of the trilogy, The Baltimore Sun has said, "[It] will make an indelible mark on literary history-one worthy of occupying the same shelf as Tolstoy's War and Peace."
Product Details
Price
$22.00
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date
February 14, 2006
Pages
768
Dimensions
5.24 X 8.08 X 1.32 inches | 1.17 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781400076185
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About the Author
Madison Smartt Bell is the author of fifteen works of fiction, including Master of the Crossroads; All Souls' Rising; Save Me, Joe Louis; Doctor Sleep; Soldier's Joy; and Ten Indians. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his family and teaches at Goucher College.
Reviews
"Extraordinary. . . . Exhilarating. . . . These books do what novels are meant to do: they propose their own vivid and inexorable history." --The New York Times Book Review "A towering work. . . . Bell has emerged as one of the most brilliant, artistic and daring historical novelists of our time. . . . He has created that rarest of works, a masterpiece."-Chicago Tribune "Glows with unquenchable life. . . . Just as characters in The Stone are possessed by the lwa--spirits who guide souls--so too has Bell opened to the spirits of his characters, imagined and real." --Los Angeles Times "Spellbinding. . . . Skillfully executed. . . . The author's portrait of Toussaint is astounding in its intensity, complexity and detail." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Must be considered among the most important artistic accomplishments of our . . . century. . . . Could easily cement Bell's reputation as one of his generation's greatest authors." --San Francisco Chronicle
