Stella Maris
Stella Maris
- Author/Seller
- Cormac McCarthy
- SKU:
- 9780330457446
$45.00
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 inquiry
that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.
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.
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.
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.
