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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 Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

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Title	:	The Sunset Limited
Author	:	Cormac McCarthy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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3.9I don't usually read plays but woah, this one was pretty intense. It was a bit hard for me to follow because of the way Black speaks (although the fact that I'm currently watching The Wire does help) but anyway it was riveting! I'd like to know so much of both characters, too many things are left to my imagination! And the way it ends?? I love that there is not like a "final conclusion" on the matter, who is right or who is wrong (I think they are both wrong but anyway...), that there's no

A powerful and philosophical story that questions everything humans hold onto, The Sunset Limited is a cross between science and faith that will make every reader question life and its meanings.

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This one-act play forces one to consider opposing perspectives on human existence. True to form, McCarthy doesnt offer peaches and roses. He offers the sad reality of what life means to two very different men. Despite the dark tone, the play reads extremely well, the dialogue is direct and penetrating. McCarthy is one of the best writers of our time.

Black and White discussing God, Suffering, Death & the Sunset Limited. This novel/play reminds me of Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Hesse's Siddhartha and Wiesel's The Trial of God. 'Sunset Limited' has definite moments of intense brilliance, emotional resonance and spiritual affirmation followed by pages of lonely darkness and cold, existential dispair. While it WAS engaging (especially the dialogue), I just didn't think it was novel or transformative. Like WfG, Siddhartha and ToG, the Sunset

Mmm Hmmm. McCarthy gone done it. He gone eclipsed Beckett hisslef. Desolation, I like them sound of that trickbag. Yess.[A full comparative review might happen, though I am not sure I am up to it - Was that the cry of an angel at the end? Was that a re-enactment of Eden, with an angel substituted for the devil? Will man fail in either case? I am not up to it, as I said. All aboard The Sunset Limited. Please.]

"The darker picture is always the correct one. When you read the history of the world, you are reading a saga of bloodshed and greed and folly the import of which is impossible to ignore. And yet we imagine that the future will somehow be different. I've no idea why we are even still here but in all probability we will not be here much longer."I think this dialogue sums up the significance of this play. A quick read with a lot to say about life, faith and the overwhelming need to influence (or