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The sunset limited takes place entirely in the subway tenement apartment of the excon, black, who has forcibly prevented the college professor, white, from casting himself in the path of an onrushing subway train. The play begins shortly after black has saved white, a professor, from committing suicide. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 160 pages and is available in paperback format. Highlights include lake amistad on the rio grande, the sunset limited and texas eagle in the. It is a dialogue that is essentially about suicide and religion. Mccarthys second published play, it was first produced by the steppenwolf theatre in chicago on may 18, 2006, and it traveled to new york city later that same year. Connecting amtraks top train routes across the top of the country, the pacific coast, amtraks southern route known as the. He attempted to jump in front of a commuter train, the sunset limited of the title. Samuel jackson and tommy lee jones cant enliven treatise on god and nihilism. The sunset limited set in a new york tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men a a deeply religious black excon samuel l.
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