Stella Maris

Cormac McCarthy

ISBN 10: 073936880X / ISBN 13: 9780739368800

Published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Jan 1900, 1900

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stella Maris
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Jan 1900
• Publication Date: 1900
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 073936880X
• ISBN 13: 9780739368800
• Binding: Sonstiges
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 152W x 130H x 29D millimeters 152 millimeters width by 130 millimeters height by 29 millimeters depth
• Weight: 138 grams

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Synopsis

NEW 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.

About the Author

The 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.