The Sunset Limited

The Sunset Limited
by Cormac McCarthy

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Author: Cormac McCarthy
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2006-10-24
ISBN: 0307278360
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: Uneven, but worthwhile for fans
Summary: 3 Stars

Based on other reviews, this was more or less what I expected. There were some great stretches, but there also some jarring clich?s which were a bit surprising from McCarthy. In particular the black character seemed ripped straight out of the Wikipedia definition for 'magic negro.' However, it is certainly possible McCarthy was consciously playing with that and using it as a device. Without getting too much into spoiler territory there is a development that sends an otherwise-typical magic negro plot into a brick wall. Perhaps someone with a deeper understanding of both McCarthy and literary history could deconstruct it and explain why it is the definition of brilliance, but to me it came off a tad unartful.

It is imperfect and seems rushed or unpolished. All that said, people that love writing - especially Cormac McCarthy's writing - will and should buy this, and I look forward to reading more of his for-film and for-stage writing. I think in the same way that people interested in Stanley Kubrick's films can find interest in Eyes Wide Shut (or even more esoterically, the Speilberg-directed A.I.), people like me who enjoy McCarthy's work will find plenty in The Sunset Limited to chew on.

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Summary of The Sunset Limited

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.

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