| The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cormac (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307278360 ISBN-13: 9780307278364 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: McCarthy's new play packs all the wallop of his gut-wrenching fiction. "The Sunset Limited," though, is not about blood and guts but about the battle for the human soul. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | African American - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006049148 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.3" W x 7.96" (0.39 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, "Black" and "White," as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men-though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life. Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time. |