McCarthy's Missing Man - Chronicles
The Passenger reflects Cormac McCarthy's longtime internal debate over the meaning, if any, and purpose, if any, of human existence.
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The Passenger reflects Cormac McCarthy's longtime internal debate over the meaning, if any, and purpose, if any, of human existence.
'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris,' Cormac McCarthy's elegiac, disputatious and deeply odd pair of new novels, offers a typically offbeat take on American culture and society.
Cormac McCarthy is perhaps America's greatest living novelist, but The Passenger and Stella Maris are more thought experiments than stories.
In 'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris,' McCarthy introduces Bobby and Alicia Western, whose exploits are more compelling than their names.
Cormac McCarthy, who hadn't published a novel since 2006, has suddenly become as prolific as James Patterson. October saw the publication of The Passenger, and its companion work, Stella Maris, appeared earlier this month. Reviews of the former have been respectful but not exactly raving. Ron Charles of the Washington Post concludes, "The Passenger casts readers into a black hole of ignorance." In the New York Times, John Jeremiah Sullivan determines that McCarthy's style "teeters" into "straight badness" and pretentiousness. And on the website of record...