A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers, \'Black\' and \'White\', to a run-down tenement where they aim to discover the meaning of life. \'McCarthy has a true ear for the truncated rhythms of dialogue...intensely alive to the power of words\' }Times{.
Deft, spare and full of artful tension, this is a dialectic redolent of Beckett.
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers, \'Black\' and \'White\', to a run-down tenement where they aim to discover the meaning of life