Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Sunset LimitedCondition: NewEAN: 9780330518192ISBN: 9780330518192Publisher: PicadorFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/04/2011Item Height: 196mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 12mmItem Weight: 134gAuthor: Cormac McCarthyLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A Novel in Dramatic FormISBN-10: 0330518194Description: Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian.'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial TimesA 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 the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history.White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it.Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself.Praise for Cormac McCarthy:‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback MountainCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

Price: 16.18 USD

Location: GU14 0GT

End Time: 2025-01-21T20:46:22.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD