Stella Maris

Cormac McCarthy

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English

Picador
13 December 2022

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Thriller & suspense

1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, 20 years old, with $40,000 in a plastic bag, admits herself to hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, she's 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. It is a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth and existence.

By: Cormac McCarthy
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9780330457446
ISBN 10: 0330457446
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 13 December 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cormac McCarthy is the author of many acclaimed novels, including All the Pretty Horses, No Country For Old Men and The Road. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.