The Sunset Limited : a novel in dramatic form

Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)

ISBN 10: 0307278360 / ISBN 13: 9780307278364

Published by Vintage International, 2006

About this Item

Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 143 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; Meaning (Philosophy. Drama. Plays. Theater Fiction. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 484193

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sunset Limited : a novel in dramatic form
• Publisher: Vintage International
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307278360
• ISBN 13: 9780307278364
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

About this title

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • 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.

About the Author

The novels of the American writer, Cormac McCarthy, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.