The Sunset Limited

The Sunset Limited

2006 • 160 pages

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“I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.”

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.

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July 7, 2008

True to form, McCarthy's melancholic, devastating view of humanity pervades this engrossing drama. Echoes of Blood Meridian, with his trademark fatalism beautifully wrought in fully imagined characters.

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