The Sunset Limited
€15.25
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780330518192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cormac McCarthy |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.140 |
| Publishing Date | 04/02/2011 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €14.39 |
| Tax | €0.86 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €15.25 |
| Availability | 12 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.
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