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 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.
Sobre o autor(a)
Mccarthy, Cormac
CORMAC MCCARTHY nasceu nos Estados Unidos, em 1933, e publicou seu primeiro romance em 1965. Desde então, ganhou popularidade e importantes prêmios literários, como o Pulitzer e o National Book Award. Dele, a Alfaguara publicou Onde os velhos não têm vez, que foi adaptado para o cinema pelos irmãos Joel e Ethan Coen, A estrada, também adaptado para o cinema em 2009, Meridiano de sangue, Todos os belos cavalos e A travessia. McCarthy morreu em Santa Fe, Novo México, em 2023, aos 89 anos. |