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Stella Maris (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780307269003)
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xNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road - An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.
"The richest and strongest work of McCarthy's career...An achievement greater than Blood Meridian...or...The Road." --The Atlantic 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia's psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.
Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN-10: 0307269000
ISBN-13: 9780307269003
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2022 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 07/11/2022
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2022
Booklist 10/15/2022 pg. 22
Library Journal 12/16/2022 pg. 1
"The richest and strongest work of McCarthy's career...An achievement greater than Blood Meridian...or...The Road." --The Atlantic 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia's psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.
Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN-10: 0307269000
ISBN-13: 9780307269003
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2022 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 07/11/2022
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2022
Booklist 10/15/2022 pg. 22
Library Journal 12/16/2022 pg. 1
By Cormac McCarthy
xThe novels of the American writer, Cormac McCarthy, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men--the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.
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