Book 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 diametrically opposing world views, they begin
a dialectic redolent of the best of Beckett.
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 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 deeply
intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.
'Nothing short of dazzling. So astonishingly affecting, so powerful, so
stimulating!' Chicago Tribune
Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten previous novels, and among his
honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle
Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
