{"product_id":"stella-maris-paperback","title":"Stella Maris - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCormac McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BEST SELLER \u003cb\u003e- T\u003c\/b\u003ehe second volume of The Passenger series, from \u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e- An\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eThe richest and strongest work of McCarthy's career...An achievement greater than \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e...or...\u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1972, 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, \u003ci\u003eStella Maris \u003c\/i\u003eis a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger, \u003c\/i\u003e a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eAll the Pretty Horses, The Road, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Country for Old Men--\u003c\/i\u003ethe latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHe died in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695716274239,"sku":"9780307389107","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1990bc2b3960fe647cc17fafc9c3ae17.webp?v=1765004819","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/stella-maris-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}