The Sunset Limited
A Novel in Dramatic Form
$28.74
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2011
Summary
A novel in dramatic form - set to become a film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780330518192 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0330518194 |
| Author: | Cormac McCarthy |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Picador |
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The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page.
The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page. * Financial Times *
The author at his best, meditating on life, suffering and religion. * Shortlist *
It’s remarkable that Cormac McCarthy could revive the antique genre of the philosophical dialogue as convincingly as he does here. His prose bites. * Evening Standard *
About The Author
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is one of the most enigmatic and reclusive superstars of the modern literary world. Living and writing from El Paso, Texas, he has shunned all requests for interviews, appearances at bookshops or literary festivals. Nonetheless, he remains one of the most admired writers of the last fifty years. His eight novels have received extraordinary reviews, being hailed as masterpieces of American literature. He has won the American National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the first book of The Border Trilogy. Cormac McCarthy is the author of twelve novels and a play. All his novels are available in Picador editions. He died in June 2023.
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