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Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian.

'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.

In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history.

White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it.

Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself.
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The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page. * Financial Times *
The author at his best, meditating on life, suffering and religion. * Shortlist *
It's remarkable that Cormac McCarthy could revive the antique genre of the philosophical dialogue as convincingly as he does here. His prose bites. * Evening Standard *

The Sunset Limited A Novel in Dramatic Form

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      Publisher Pan Macmillan
      Published 4 February 2011
      ISBN-13 9780330518192
      978-0330518192
      ISBN-10 0330518194
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      Classics Contemporary Fiction Books by Cormac McCarthy

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian.

      'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times

      A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.

      In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history.

      White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it.

      Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself.
      Trade Review
      The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page. * Financial Times *
      The author at his best, meditating on life, suffering and religion. * Shortlist *
      It's remarkable that Cormac McCarthy could revive the antique genre of the philosophical dialogue as convincingly as he does here. His prose bites. * Evening Standard *

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