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The Sunset Limited is a play by American writer Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy's second published play, it was first produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago on May 18, 2006, and it traveled to New York City later that same year.
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Oct 24, 2006 · 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) from leaping in the path of a train, The Sunset Limited, in an attempted suicide.
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited has been released as a book, produced as a play, and adapted into a film. Just which what it is really supposed to be remains unclear. After all, the subtitle is “A Novel in Dramatic Form.” And yet, as a novel it is really just the packaging of a stage play into book form.
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The Sunset Limited is subtitled "a novel in dramatic form," and, in fact, it does gravitate more towards being a novel rather than a play. It has two characters, a white professor and a black religious believer.
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Jul 10, 2024 · Cormac McCarthy is best known for writing 'Blood Meridian', but in 2006, he delivered a play called 'The Sunset Limited' that explores existentialist themes.
The Sunset Limited. From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a...
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. Look for Cormac McCarthy’s latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
