{"product_id":"sunset-limited-the","title":"Sunset Limited, The","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page'' – Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn that small apartment the two men, known as ''Black'' and ''White'', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Cormac McCarthy:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''[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","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57056486949199,"sku":"9780330518192","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780330518192_1-sunset-limited-the.jpg?v=1771360349","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/sunset-limited-the","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}