The Stone That the Builder Refused": A sprawling story of revolution and Haiti

By John Sutherland Special to The Seattle Times Review "The Stone That the Builder Refused," Madison Smartt Bell's final novel of his Haitian trilogy, ends the epic of a remarkable revolution with messianic overtones. The title, while ostensibly taken from singer Bob Marley, was originally a biblical prophecy and is very appropriately applied to a great leader, Toussaint Louverture, father of this hemisphere's first black republic Book Review: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2002129067_bell26.html