The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form - Rilegato

McCarthy, Cormac

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ISBN 10: 0330518070 ISBN 13: 9780330518079

Casa editrice: Picador, 2010

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 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

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Descrizione del libro

A novel in dramatic form – set to become a film staring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson

L'autore

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0330518070
• ISBN 13: 9780330518079
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 160