<![CDATA[The Sunset Limited]]>

false <![CDATA[The Sunset Limited]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166503882m/12496.jpg 12496 2 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. 14794 24 10 2006 The Sunset Limited total:363|5:84|4:134|3:107|2:35|1:3| 363 1350 636 65 4 4 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 22 22:38:16 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 22:39:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 15:42:18 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 15:59:33 -0700 2008 1 The Sunset Limited is a very powerful piece of literature.
It is a dialogue that is essentially about suicide and religion. There are two characters.
One man, a black man ("black"), had a terrible life and was in jail for years and did horrible things, such as murder and other cr...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Jan 12 11:56:02 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 17 01:26:31 -0700 2008 The entire play/novel is a single conversation between two men, identified as Black and White, at a table in Black's apartment. It opens in medias res, after Black (who is black) just saved White (who is white)...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu May 14 07:19:43 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 07:20:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 03 19:08:24 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 19:11:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Jul 29 09:44:56 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 09:51:35 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 09:54:50 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 16:33:45 -0800 2009
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BUT, what I particularly DO NOT LIKE is that even though both characters are only supposed to...more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 12:42:35 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 23:03:34 -0700 2008

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"Still I got to ask what is the use of notions such a them if it wont keep you glued down to the platform when the Sunset Limited co...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 11 10:28:57 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 10:29:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 11:40:06 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 11:23:05 -0700 2008 The Sunset Limited in one day. One.

McCarthy tackles the usual subjects he loves to talk about: life, death, free will, spirituality, rationalism, etc etc. One difference thoug...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 16:25:03 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 16:39:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 true false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 14:42:44 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 14:45:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 12 13:46:46 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 13:49:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 12:40:58 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 04:28:39 -0700 2009 Not your typical Cormac.
Not by a long shot.

A White man and a Black man wax poetic about Jesus, and life, and death. Written in the form of a play, Sunset Limited is stripped of everything but their conversation, which takes place in Blacks home at his kitchen table.
...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 14:47:20 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 19:07:32 -0800 2009 For me, I haven't read such a concise piece of literature which made me think about my life. I guess, it aligned a lot with the debate I have within and thus moved me much more than another reader.
It's such a small book, I would say read it.

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