Stella Maris
Stella Maris
- Author/Seller
- Cormac McCarthy
- SKU:
- 9780330457453
$20.00
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 enquiry
that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.
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.
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 enquiry
that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.
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.
