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 .

Review Quotes:
"[McCarthy] reigns as a titan of American lit--an undisputed heir to Melville and Faulkner, the subject of infinite grad-school theses, and a hard-nosed dispenser of what Saul Bellow called 'life-giving and death-dealing' sentences... It's the humid, fevered, magniloquent, Bible-cadenced, comma-starved, word-drunk prose of what some fans consider his masterwork, Suttree... There's a lot here. It might make your head spin... What it all adds up to--perhaps surprisingly--is a doomed and unsettling love story, a Platonic tragedy.... Electric and thunderous... An astonishing pair of novels... Taken together, The Passenger and Stella Maris are an intellectually breathtaking achievement."
-Jonathan Miles, Garden & Gun

"At 89, [McCarthy is] still riffing, like a jazz virtuoso, on the American Nightmare, Faulkner's mythmaking, and the cadences of Joyce. McCarthy's flame burns bright and clear in two new works...The Passenger,wondrous in its architecture, and a companion piece,Stella Maris,a minimalist, edgy novella...McCarthy toggles between books and across decades, sketching the contours of a love that dare not say its name. McCarthy's art is transcendent even as it takes no prisoners, an achievement akin only to the oeuvres of his greatest peers, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth. He will endure."
--Oprah Daily

A companion to McCarthy'sThe Passengerthat both supplements and subverts it... Enigmatic... A grand puzzle, and grandly written at that, about shattered psyches and illicit dreams.
--Kirkus Reviews,Starred Review

Publisher Marketing:
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Roadreturns with the second volume of The Passenger series:Stella Marisis an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.

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 Marisis a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda toThe Passenger,a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.

Review Citations:

• Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2022 pg. 2 (EAN 9780307269003, Hardcover)

• Publishers Weekly 07/11/2022 (EAN 9780307269003, Hardcover)

• Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2022 (EAN 9780307269003, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

• Booklist 10/15/2022 pg. 22 (EAN 9780307269003, Hardcover)