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The Passenger is a 2022 novel by the American writer Cormac McCarthy. [1] It was released six weeks before its companion novel Stella Maris . The plot of both The Passenger and Stella Maris follows Bobby and Alicia Western, two siblings whose father helped develop the atomic bomb.
Oct 25, 2022 · Cormac McCarthy. 980, PASS CHRISTIAN, It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender 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 ...
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Oct 19, 2022 · THE PASSENGER, by Cormac McCarthy. The term “Janus word” was coined in the 1880s by the English theologian Thomas Kelly Cheyne to describe a word that can express two, more or less opposite ...
“[The Passenger] is among McCarthy’s most quietly reflective novels, recalling the moments of serenity amid scenes of devastation that made The Road so haunting…The ebb and flow of spare economy and lyrical intoxication undoubtedly lends the most rhapsodic passages a poignancy unusual even by McCarthy’s standards….A moving and characteristically disconcerting addition to the oeuvre ...
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Oct 25, 2022 · The Passenger. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, October 25, 2022. by Cormac McCarthy (Author) 3.9 5,437 ratings. Book 1 of 2: The Passenger. Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction. See all formats and editions. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The ...
Taken together, [The Passenger and Stella Maris] offer an intellectual experience that’s not quite like anything else out there, laced with the eerie beauty that only Cormac McCarthy can offer.” —Constance Grady, Vox “ His first novels since his 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner The Road …are as bold and intellectually keen as anything the author’s ever written…Faulknerian ...
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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 .
