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Original Title:	The Sunset Limited
ISBN:	0307278360 (ISBN13: 9780307278364)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Black, White
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)

The Sunset Limited

Cormac McCarthy

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 8072 Users | 782 Reviews

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Title	:	The Sunset Limited
Author	:	Cormac McCarthy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	October 24th 2006 by Vintage
Categories	:	Fiction. Plays. Drama. Philosophy

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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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Thought provoking piece. I saw this on HBO with Samuel L Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones and thought it was excellent. The book didn't disappoint.

This is a great dialogue. It really does resonate, including swipes at western civilization, racism, classism, free will, and intellectual elitism, not just suicide, religious belief, and free thinking. If you ask me, Mr Black kicks Mr White's ass all the way back to the Sunset Limited, ie, Mr White lost this game of the Dozens big time, despite the fact White thinks he won and Black thinks he himself lost. Not that I can't relate to the major depressive Mr White - I was Mr White last year, but

The Sunset Limited is fascinating - some of McCarthy's best work, and that is saying a lot. His use of dialogue in this book is nothing short of brilliant. He is able to take two opposing world views, examine them, and bring them to a climax that forces the reader to consider what he himself truly believe all through the conversation of two characters. I have a suspicion that McCarthy and I would differ on some important worldview issues but I have nothing but respect for this man. One of the

BLACK. Who's that?WHITE. Who's who?BLACK. Him over there staring at us.WHITE. Beat's me.BLACK. He's coming over.STEVEN. Nice evening ain't it.WHITE. Can I help you?STEVEN. I've just been reading about you guys.BLACK. And.STEVEN. Three stars is about right.WHITE. Excuse me?STEVEN. GR - goodreads, it's a social cataloging/reviewing site for book lovers.BLACK. I see. Three don't sound too good a number to me. What's the problem? Friendo. STEVEN. Look, it's like this, no disrespect to either one of

Another thought provoking work from McCarthy.

Thought provoking is an understatement.

I guess it was bound to happen some time. Cormac McCarthy finally disappointed me. The entire play/novel is a single conversation between two men, identified as Black and White, at a table in Black's apartment. It opens in medias res, after Black (who is black) just saved White (who is white) from leaping in the path of a train, The Sunset Limited, in an attempted suicide. The ex-con Black tries to convince White that suicide is not the solution, telling his own story of Christian redemption.