The Sunset Limited

About this book

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.