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Stella Maris

Title
Stella Maris / Cormac McCarthy.
Author
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023
Publication
  • New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Description
189 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road comes the second volume of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1972: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University 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"--
Subject
  • McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023. > bk. 2
  • McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023
  • Young women > Fiction
  • Siblings > Fiction
  • Mental illness > Fiction
  • Paranoid schizophrenia > Fiction
  • Mentally ill women > Fiction
  • Schizophrenics > Fiction
  • Women doctoral students > Fiction
  • Women mathematicians > Fiction
  • Psychiatric hospitals > Fiction
  • Grief > Fiction
  • Grief
  • Mental illness
  • Mentally ill women
  • Paranoid schizophrenia
  • Psychiatric hospitals
  • Schizophrenics
  • Siblings
  • Women doctoral students
  • Women mathematicians
  • Young women
  • Family members
  • Mental disorders
  • Wisconsin > Fiction
  • Wisconsin
Genre/Form
  • Psychological fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
  • Fiction.
  • Novels.
  • Mentally ill women – Fiction.
Note
  • "This is a Borzoi book"-- Title page verso.
  • Sequel to: The Passenger.
Call Number
JFE 23-1573
ISBN
  • 9780307269003
  • 0307269000
  • 9781524712402 (canceled/invalid)
  • 152471240X (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780593535233 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0593535235 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022934755
OCLC
1334494437
Author
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023, author.
Title
Stella Maris / Cormac McCarthy.
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
JFE 23-1573
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