An appealing piece of work . . . <b>gripping, with plenty of reflection and evocation</b>

Telegraph

<i>The Passenger </i>is like a submerged ship itself; a gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song . . . <b>It’s rich and it’s strange, mercurial and melancholic</b>

Guardian

A moving and characteristically disconcerting addition to the oeuvre of one of America’s greatest writers

Irish Times

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[A] gripping story, written in McCarthy’s trademark acerbic style

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Kafka on the bayou

Observer

Critics have detected the influence on him of Faulkner and Hemingway, but this is to understate his achievement. <i>The Passenger</i> shows that McCarthy belongs in the company of Melville and Dostoevsky, writers the world will never cease to need

New Statesman

A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road.‘A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song’ – The Guardian1980, Mississippi. It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges into the darkness of the ocean. His dive light illuminates a 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 . . .Now a collateral witness to this disappearance, Bobby is discouraged from speaking of what he has seen. He is a man haunted: 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.One of the final works by Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger is book one in a duology. It is followed by Stella Maris.Praise for Cormac McCarthy:‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain
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A salvage diver, afraid of the watery deep, becomes involved in a conspiracy he cannot comprehend – and is haunted by his family's dark past.
An appealing piece of work . . . gripping, with plenty of reflection and evocation
From one of America's greatest writers - a pair of books, together a masterpiece - a decade in the making.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780330457422
Publisert
2022-10-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Picador
Vekt
620 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
38 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
400

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Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men – the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.