Description
| Product ID: | 9780330518192 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Sunset Limited |
| Subtitle: | A Novel in Dramatic Form |
| Authors: | Author: Cormac McCarthy |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A rich, philosophical play, probing the deepest questions of human existence, from the author of The Road and All the Pretty Horses. <p><b>Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, <i>The Sunset Limited</i> is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of <i>No Country for Old Men </i>and<i> Blood Meridian</i>.<br><br>'<i>The Sunset Limited</i> grips from the very first page' – <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history.<br><br>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.<br><br>Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself.<br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br><br>‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road </i>and<i> The Wren, The Wren</i><br><br>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br><br>'[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 <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-02-04 |
