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| The Sunset Limited | 
 enlarge | Author: Cormac Mccarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 36816
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0307278360
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307278364
ASIN: 0307278360
Publication Date: October 24, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Think: it's a wonderful life. September 1, 2007
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
This first appears to be a lite, spare work, but it is delightfully deep. It presents a koan, the human conundrum. It poses life's most persistant question: the meaning of it all. This one-act play is part MY DINNER WITH ANDRE and part the bridge scene from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
It provokes thought in the reader, and different readers will resolve the debate in different ways, just as reviewers here will see it differently. Perhaps, like the choice ending of Yann Martel's LIFE OF PI, it will depend upon whether you see this life as a gift or as simply suffering, a glass half-full argument. It will grab you where you live.
I see it as positive and life-affirming. I can also see a human face on the cover, and the lights in the darkness. Perhaps you can too.
This is for me one of the finest books I have read, even if it was a play. March 30, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Although very brief, Mccarthy's play took me twice the time it should have because I had to stop and savor the dialogue. I was loving the comments of "Black." I found them profound, witty, gentle and loving, and often very moving. "White", too, had terrific witty lines.This play reminded me of an Edward Albee type of verbal exchange--one that was so rich and brilliantly composed that I was genually thrilled to be reading it.
However, I felt that the final few pages jumped ship. Suddenly The characters were worn out, not able to keep going. I could imagine Black saying and doing so much more. He, earlier, vowed to go home with White, yet inexplicably he gave up. The character built by McCarthy would not have suddenly folded. That part did not seem to fit. I wish I knew what McCarthy was feeling at that point.
I have read most of McCarthy's works, and found this and The Road to be my favorates. We are blessed to have a writer as fine as McCarthy. The only other living author I treasure as much is Haruki Murakami.
 Florida to California February 23, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this play. McCarthy's prose is incisive, witty, sympathetic, and more than occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. While there are moments where the dialogue stalls a little, even feeling slightly pedantic, the momentum of the work as whole carries the reader forward uninterrupted.
The questions addressed are fundamental. Even critical. Don't leave home without them.
My major question is why did McCarthy choose the "Sunset Limited"? It runs from Florida to California and would never be in a subway station. What gives?
pseudoprofundity? February 3, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
it's amazing that a person would complain about mccarthy's work written in dramatic form as the sunset limited is. to even say that the mind conjures imagery of a third person who is dawkins, sitting at the table, "...who would mop the floor with these two sorry saps," is completely missing the point as the reviewer who gave this play 2 stars did. two sorry saps? unfortunately the way most of us conduct our lives is based on the way that these two people are represented, i.e. good vs. bad, right-wrong, religious vs. agnostic, black and white, delusion vs. reality, hope vs. despair. we all live with a sense duality. to bring up dawkins book, the god delusion, is like arguing the bible. what's right and what's wrong? what is at the heart of mccarthy's storys and what makes him an artist is that he understands both but doesn't let his characters commit to one or the other. he intertwines good and bad and leaves it gray. his storys are of morality but he never sells bad or good he only presents things as they are. he has nothing to hide and is not selling his ideas politically, religiously, artistically, moralistically or falsely. because of these thing i feel he is always and will continue to be a breath of fresh air in these often sad and confusing times. buy this book.
The Mac Daddy July 10, 2007
Another classic from Mac McCarthy...
A quick, substantive read regarding the dilemma of perception versus reality.
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