The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris (First Edition)

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 0593536045 / ISBN 13: 9780593536049

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2022

About this Item

FIRST LIMITED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING BOX SET (stated "First Edition", no other printings listed). New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. NEW, UNREAD. Both books are Fine/Fine. Dust jackets are clean, with no wear, no tears, and not price-clipped ($30.00/$26.00). Text Clean, no marks. Boards show no flaws, no bumps. The Slipcase is also in Fine condition. The Box and Jacket Design are by Chip Kidd. The books have been removed from the shrink-wrap to verify that they are first printings.Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from a Dry, Smoke-Free shop.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris (First Edition)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593536045
• ISBN 13: 9780593536049
• Binding: Hardcover in Slipcase
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

An artfully designed box set of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Cormac McCarthy’s final masterpiece, told in two volumes, each a New York Times bestseller

The Passenger is a fast-paced and sprawling novel while Stella Maris is a tightly controlled coda, told entirely in dialogue. Together they relate the thrilling story of a brother and sister, haunted by loss, pursued by conspiracy, and longing for a death they cannot reconcile with God.

The Passenger

“A brilliant book . . . A stunning accomplishment . . . It’s Cormac McCarthy writing as only Cormac McCarthy can.”—Los Angeles Times
 
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western, a salvage diver, zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the boat deck 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.
 
Stella Maris

“Cormac McCarthy has never been better. . . . Incandescent with life.”—The Atlantic

1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western is twenty years old when she arrives at a psychiatric facility with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag. 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 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.

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.