Madison Smartt Bell - The Stone that the Builder Refused

Subjects: Fiction
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction

[i]The Stone that the Builder Refused [/i]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 [i]All Souls' Rising [/i](a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues with [i]Master of the Crossroads.[/i] Each of these three novels can be read independently of the two others; of the trilogy, [i]The Baltimore Sun[/i] has said, "[It] will make an indelible mark on literary history-one worthy of occupying the same shelf as Tolstoy's [i]War and Peace[/i]."