Cormac McCarthy - The Sunset Limited

CORMAC McCARTHY

Winner of the National Book Award
and the National Book Critics Circle Award

McCarthys prose [is] the most laudable, his characters the most fully inhabited, his sense of place the most bloodworthy and thoroughly felt of any living writers.

Esquire

McCarthy has a voice that is unmistakably his. Its elegiac rhythm captures the badlands of Texas and northern Mexico with a passion most writers either couldnt muster or wouldnt dare.

The Boston Globe

The deity that presides over Mr. McCarthys world has not modeled itself on humanity: its voice most resembles the one that addressed Job out of the whirlwind.

The New York Times Book Review

McCarthy meditates on creation, stares at it. He does not look past appearances, he looks through them The world is set before us with fever-dream clarity and then, with simile and metaphor, he sweeps everything into profound animation McCarthy is writing entirely against the grain of our times, against the haste and the distraction and the moral diffusion As an old, more spacious world rises up, we experience a more vivid and consequential feeling about human destiny, about good and evil and matters of the spirit.

The New Republic

Like the novelists he admiresMelville, Dostoyevsky, FaulknerCORMAC McCARTHY has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves.

The Washington Post Book World

This is a room in a tenement building in a black ghetto in New York City. There is a kitchen with a stove and a large refrigerator. A door to the outer hallway and another presumably to a bedroom. The hallway door is fitted with a bizarre collection of locks and bars. There is a cheap formica table in the room and two chrome and plastic chairs. There is a drawer in the table. On the table is a bible and a newspaper. A pair of glasses. A pad and pencil. A large black man is sitting in one chair (stage right) and in the other a middle-aged white man dressed in running pants and athletic shoes. He wears a T-shirt and the jacketwhich matches the pantshangs on the chair behind him.