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22%OFFCormac McCarthy - The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form. Cormac McCarthy - 9780330518192 - V9780330518192
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The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form. Cormac McCarthy

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Description for The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form. Cormac McCarthy paperback. McCarthy has a true ear for the truncated rhythms of dialogue .. intensely alive to the power of words.' The Times Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138.
Full of rich dialogue, Cormac McCarthy's insightful and philosophical play, The Sunset Limited, probes the deepest questions of human existence. 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 of Beckett. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330518192
SKU
V9780330518192
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Ref
99-50

About Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is the author of many acclaimed novels, including The Road and No Country For Old Men. In addition to The Sunset Limited, he is also the author of another play, The Stonemason, and several screenplays. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Reviews for The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form. Cormac McCarthy
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
The author at his best, meditating on life, suffering and religion.
Shortlist
The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page.
Financial Times

Goodreads reviews for The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form. Cormac McCarthy


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