The Sunset Limited

A Novel in Dramatic Form

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Austin Pendleton, Ezra Knight, Tom Stechschulte

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.

©2007 Cormac McCarthy (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

“A brilliantly articulated piece, penned by a wildly acclaimed fiction writer. Nothing short of dazzling. So astonishingly effecting, so powerful, so stimulating!” ( Chicago Tribune)

My Favorite Audio Book!

I never get tired of listening to this. A job well done. My Favorite indeed!

Very well delivered

This is a beautiful conversation between two views of reality that can be neither proved or disproved. Each failing to persuade the other there is an impasse that rings true of many of our relationships. The ending is unsatisfying but true of many such encounters.

a classic

I have lost track of how many times I have listened to this production and recommended it to others. It is just so well done in the true, albeit dark, nature of Cormac McCarthy, may he rest in peace.

Phenomenal Masterpiece

What an incredibly insightful discussion on the deepest meanings of our life set in a debate one on one style

Terminal Passangers

Fantastic and short, but hits like a pugilist. The struggle of darkness against the messengers of light.