The Sunset Limited

When a professor throws himself in front of a train, an ex-con pulls him out of harm’s way and takes him home to talk. The skeptical professor and his faith-driven rescuer then debate truth, fiction, and belief, seeking an answer to the age-old question, “Is life worth living?” The characters have strongly diverse opinions, but all is not black and white in this work by Cormac McCarthy, an author famed for his novels of the southwest. The Chicago Tribune calls The Sunset Limited “brilliantly articulated.”