Vintage
October 2023
On Sale: September 26, 2023
383 pages ISBN: 030738909X EAN: 9780307389091 Kindle: B09T9D8QY7 Trade Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of
a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The
Road • The story of a salvage diver, haunted by
loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy
beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot
reconcile with God.
A NEW YORK
TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Blends the
rowdy humor of some of McCarthy’s early novels with
the parched tone of his more apocalyptic later
work." —The New York Times
Stella
Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series,
is available now.
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN,
MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western
zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast
Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the
sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair
floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash
site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s
black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral
witness to machinations that can only bring him harm,
Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with
badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb
that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister,
the love and ruin of his soul.
Traversing
the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New
Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida
coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of
morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness
that is human consciousness.
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