# Stella Maris

**_NEW YORK TIMES_ BEST SELLER **\- T**he second volume of The Passenger series, from **The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of _The Road_ **\- 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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**_"_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.

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- **Vendor:** Pan Macmillan
- **Type:** Cormac McCarthy

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