Stella Maris

Stella Maris is a masterful coda to The Passenger, a novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a mathematician who is admitted to the hospital with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag and one request: she does not want to talk about her brother. The book is praised for its rich and strange prose, its mercurial and melancholic tone, and its ability to present the darker human impulses in a rich prose that is hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power.

Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 06 December 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Stella Maris is a masterful coda to The Passenger, a novel by the legendary author Cormac McCarthy. It is an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe. 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. Stella Maris is book two in a duology, preceded by The Passenger.

Praise for The Passenger:

"What a glorious sunset song. . . Its rich and its strange, mercurial and melancholic." - Guardian

"The Passenger shows that McCarthy belongs in the company of Melville and Dostoevsky, writers the world will never cease to need." - New Statesman

Praise for Cormac McCarthy:

"McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute." - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren

"His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power." - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series

"In presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence." - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

Weight: 374g
Dimension: 162 x 242 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780330457446