**NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The 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 Daily
"The 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.
