Description
| Product ID: | 9780330457422 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Passenger |
| Authors: | Author: Cormac McCarthy |
| Page Count: | 400 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A salvage diver, afraid of the watery deep, becomes involved in a conspiracy he cannot comprehend – and is haunted by his family's dark past. <p><b>A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, <i>The Passenger</i> is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of <i>No Country for Old Men </i>and <i>The Road</i>.<br><br>‘A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song’ – <i>The Guardian</i></b><br><br>1980, Mississippi. It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges into the darkness of the ocean. His dive light illuminates a 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 . . .<br><br>Now a collateral witness to this disappearance, Bobby is discouraged from speaking of what he has seen. He is a man haunted: 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.<br><br><b>One of the final works by Cormac McCarthy, <i>The Passenger</i> is book one in a duology. It is followed by <i>Stella Maris</i>.</b><br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br><br>‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road</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><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: | 2022-10-25 |
