Description
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 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.
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/24/2006
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.30w x 0.41d
ISBN13: 9780307278364
ISBN10: 0307278360
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | African American & Black | General
About the Author
Cormac McCarthy is the author of nine novels, among other literary works. His many honors include the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.