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.
