'McCarthy has a true ear for the truncated rhythms of dialogue . . . intensely alive to the power of words.' The Times
A rich, philosophical play, probing the deepest questions of human existence, from the author of
The Road and
All the Pretty Horses.
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 Times
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 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 Mountain
The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page. Financial Times
Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including
Blood Meridian,
Child of God and
The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include
All the Pretty Horses,
The Road and
No Country for Old Men - the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.
Über den Autor
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.
Klappentext
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.
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 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 by Cormac McCarthy is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deeply intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.
'McCarthy has a true ear for the truncated rhythms of dialogue . . . intensely alive to the power of words.' The Times
