Stella Maris /T

Book Title: Stella Maris /T
ISBN: 9781447294016
By Author(s):MCCARTHY CORMAC
By Publisher:PAN MACMILLAN UK
Format:TPB

NEW YORK TIMESBEST SELLER The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe RoadAn intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.

“The richest and strongest work of McCarthys careerAn achievement greater thanBlood MeridianorThe 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 Alicias psychiatric sessions,Stella Marisis a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda toThe Passenger,a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.