"The Passenger" and "Stella Maris" coming Oct/Nov 2022.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/books/cormac-mccarthy-new-novels.html
These have been a long time coming. He's been teasing this since at least 2009. Looks like these were announced in March but I'm just now hearing about it. Already pre-ordered from B&N.
McCarthy looks to be leaving the West behind and heading for the Gulf Coast, namely New Orleans and Pass Christian, MS. Of course McCarthy can't write a simple and entertaining mystery/thriller without adding in incest, nuclear science, and schizophrenia.
I know there's some lovers and haters of Cormac here. I'm interested to see how these turn out, especially the unusual format of Stella Maris.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/books/cormac-mccarthy-new-novels.html
These have been a long time coming. He's been teasing this since at least 2009. Looks like these were announced in March but I'm just now hearing about it. Already pre-ordered from B&N.
McCarthy looks to be leaving the West behind and heading for the Gulf Coast, namely New Orleans and Pass Christian, MS. Of course McCarthy can't write a simple and entertaining mystery/thriller without adding in incest, nuclear science, and schizophrenia.
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This fall, McCarthy, 88, is publishing not only "The Passenger," but also a second, related novel, titled "Stella Maris." McCarthy's longtime publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, will release them one month apart.
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"The Passenger," which comes out on Oct. 25, takes place in 1980, in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. The plot is set in motion when Bobby, a salvage diver, gets assigned to explore the wreckage of a sunken jet off the coast of Mississippi, and discovers that the plane's black box, the pilot's flight bag and the body of one of the passengers are all missing. With the pace and twists of a thriller, the 400-page narrative follows Bobby, who is haunted by his memories of his father and sister, as he gets drawn into the mystery of the plane crash, and realizes he may have uncovered something nefarious when strange men in suits show up at his home.
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"Stella Maris," which will be released on Nov. 22 and serves as a coda to "The Passenger," tells Alicia's story, over roughly 200 pages. The narrative unfolds entirely in dialogue, as a transcript between Alicia and her doctor at a psychiatric institution in Wisconsin in 1972, where Alicia, a 20-year-old doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, receives a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
I know there's some lovers and haters of Cormac here. I'm interested to see how these turn out, especially the unusual format of Stella Maris.