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STELLA MARIS - CORMAC MCCARTHY KARTONIERT (TB)

The best-selling  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 DailyThe 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.

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