# Stella Maris - Hardcover

by **Cormac McCarthy** (Author)

**_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.  
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**"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_**  
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"_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.

### Author Biography

The novels of the American writer, Cormac McCarthy, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include _All the Pretty Horses, The Road,_ and _No Country for Old Men--_the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture_._

**Number of Pages:** 208

**Dimensions:** 1 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN

**Publication Date:** December 06, 2022

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