The Passenger (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780593663554)

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.

"McCarthy returns with a one-two punch...a welcome return from a legend." --Esquire

Look for Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, on sale December 6th.

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit--by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.

Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN-10: 0593663551
ISBN-13: 9780593663554
Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d
Large Print