cover image Stone Work

Stone Work

John Jerome. Penguin Books, $8.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-14-008881-6

In what PW judged ``wry, often metaphysical musings on physics and physiology,'' Jerome describes a year's work building a boundary wall on his property in Massachusetts, discovering the elemental satisfactions of maneuvering tons of stone into a monumental yet simple form. (July)