Author | Cormac McCarthy |
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Audio read by |
Julia Whelan Edoardo Ballerini |
Language | English |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | December 6, 2022 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 208 |
ISBN | 978-0-307-26900-3 |
Preceded by | The Passenger |
Stella Maris is a 2022 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy that was published on December 6, 2022. [1] It is a companion novel to The Passenger. [2] It was the final novel published before his death on June 13, 2023. [3] It consists primarily of dialogue with little narration, exploring the nature of the protagonist's delusions and topics such as quantum mechanics and phenomenology.
The novel follows Alicia Western, a math prodigy conflicted by her father's contributions to the American development of the atomic bomb. [2] The entire novel is set in 1972 in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, at the titular Stella Maris, "a non-denominational facility and hospice for the care of psychiatric medical patients," as stated on page 3 (the only page that is not written in dialogue). The novel consists of a "series of conversations between Alicia and her psychiatrist, Dr. Cohen, written like a play but with no exposition, stage directions, or dialogue tags. The subjects include mathematics, quantum mechanics, music theory, and obscure philosophy." [4]
In a 2009 interview, McCarthy said that he had been "planning on writing about a woman for 50 years". [2]
Announced in March 2022, [2] Stella Maris was published by Knopf on December 6, 2022, [1] one month after its companion novel The Passenger. [2]
Author | Cormac McCarthy |
---|---|
Audio read by |
Julia Whelan Edoardo Ballerini |
Language | English |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | December 6, 2022 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 208 |
ISBN | 978-0-307-26900-3 |
Preceded by | The Passenger |
Stella Maris is a 2022 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy that was published on December 6, 2022. [1] It is a companion novel to The Passenger. [2] It was the final novel published before his death on June 13, 2023. [3] It consists primarily of dialogue with little narration, exploring the nature of the protagonist's delusions and topics such as quantum mechanics and phenomenology.
The novel follows Alicia Western, a math prodigy conflicted by her father's contributions to the American development of the atomic bomb. [2] The entire novel is set in 1972 in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, at the titular Stella Maris, "a non-denominational facility and hospice for the care of psychiatric medical patients," as stated on page 3 (the only page that is not written in dialogue). The novel consists of a "series of conversations between Alicia and her psychiatrist, Dr. Cohen, written like a play but with no exposition, stage directions, or dialogue tags. The subjects include mathematics, quantum mechanics, music theory, and obscure philosophy." [4]
In a 2009 interview, McCarthy said that he had been "planning on writing about a woman for 50 years". [2]
Announced in March 2022, [2] Stella Maris was published by Knopf on December 6, 2022, [1] one month after its companion novel The Passenger. [2]