The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form - Brossura

McCarthy, Cormac

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ISBN 10: 0307278360 ISBN 13: 9780307278364

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione

“A brilliantly articulated piece, penned by a wildly acclaimed fiction writer. Nothing short of dazzling. So astonishingly effecting, so powerful, so stimulating!” –Chicago Tribune

L'autore

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.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0307278360
• ISBN 13: 9780307278364
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160