Stella_Maris_(novel)

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Stella Maris (novel)

2022 novel by Cormac McCarthy

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Stella Maris is a 2022 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy that was published on December 6, 2022.[1] It is a companion novel to The Passenger.[2] It was the final novel published before his death on June 13, 2023.[3]

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Plot

The novel follows Alicia Western, a math prodigy conflicted by her father's contributions to the American development of the atomic bomb.[2] The entire novel is set in 1972 in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, at the titular Stella Maris, "a non-denominational facility and hospice for the care of psychiatric medical patients," as stated on page 3 (the only page that is not written in dialogue). The novel consists of a "series of conversations between Alicia and her psychiatrist, Dr. Cohen, written like a play but with no exposition, stage directions, or dialogue tags. The subjects include mathematics, quantum mechanics, music theory, and obscure philosophy."[4]

Development

In a 2009 interview, McCarthy said that he had been "planning on writing about a woman for 50 years".[2]

Publication

Announced in March 2022,[2] Stella Maris was published by Knopf on December 6, 2022,[1] one month after its companion novel The Passenger.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Grobar, Matt (March 8, 2022). "New Cormac McCarthy Novels 'The Passenger' And 'Stella Maris' To Be Published By Knopf This Fall". Deadline. Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  2. [2]
    Cain, Sian (March 8, 2022). "Cormac McCarthy: two new novels coming in 2022, 16 years after The Road". The Guardian. Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road, dies aged 89". BBC News. 13 June 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  4. [4]
    "Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy".


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