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STELLA MARIS - CORMAC MCCARTHY GEBUNDEN

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the
second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and
longing  as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.
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 The
richest and strongest work of McCarthy’s career…An achievement greater than Blood
Meridian…or…The Road.” —The Atlantic1972  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.

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