Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy * The Passenger #2

1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, Alicia Western, 20 years old, with $40,000 in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in math at the Univ 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, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used, see photos. No markings Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Philosophy, Novel, Book New to Poshmark? Save $10 on your first purchase! Use my referral code when you set up your account: bastet44.