The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form

The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic FormA 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.

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.

Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life.

Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/24/2006
ISBN: 9780307278364
Pages: 143
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.30w x 0.41d

Review Citations: Kliatt 03/01/2007 pg. 23