The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form Cormac McCarthy Picador 0401

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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 TimesA 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.Praise for Cormac McCarthy:‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren\'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power\' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series\'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence\' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain Σελίδες: 160, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0401, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

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