Description
| Product ID: | 9780330457446 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Stella Maris |
| Authors: | Author: Cormac McCarthy |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Wisconsin, c 1970 to c 1980 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A concluding addition to The Passenger, the hallucinogenic masterpiece from the legendary author of The Road and Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy. <p><b>God. Truth. Existence. From the legendary author Cormac McCarthy, <i>Stella Maris</i> is a masterful coda to <i>The Passenger</i>.<br><br>'It's an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe' – <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>A mathematician, twenty years-old, is admitted to the hospital. She has forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, and one request. She does not want to talk about her brother.<br><br>Stella Maris is book two in a duology, preceded by <i>The Passenger</i>.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>The Passenger</i>:</b><br><br>'What a glorious sunset song . . . It’s rich and it’s strange, mercurial and melancholic' – <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'The Passenger shows that McCarthy belongs in the company of Melville and Dostoevsky, writers the world will never cease to need' – <i>New Statesman</i><br><br><b>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:</b><br><br>‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road </i>and <i>The Wren, The Wren</i><br><br>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br><br>'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-12-06 |
