Cormac McCarthy

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road - An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The richest and strongest work of McCarthy's career...An achievement greater than Blood Meridian...or...The Road." --The Atlantic 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: 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.

Cornelius Suttree har forlatt kone og barn, tatt et endelig farvel med sin privilegerte familiebakgrunn og slått seg ned ved Tennessee-elvens bredder. Nå bor han i en husbåt og lever side om side med samfunnets utskudd. Romanen følger Suttree over en femårsperiode der han blir kjent med de mest merkverdige typer: forbrytere, prostituerte, drukkenbolter og sågar en heks. Suttree tiltrekker seg et mangfold av kvinner, men kjærlighetslivet hans er like ulykksalig som resten av tilværelsen hans. Suttree er en av Cormac McCarthys mest humoristiske romaner, til tross for alt den rommer av mørke og brutalitet. Det er en eventyrlig roman om frihet og samhold, som er blitt kalt en krysning mellom Ulysses og Huckleberry Finn. Den utkommer nå for første gang på norsk.

Kormak Makkarti - sovremennyj amerikanskij klassik glavnogo kalibra, laureat Makarturovskoj stipendii "Za genialnost", master slozhnykh perezhivanij i nestandartnogo sintaksisa, khorosho izvestnyj nashemu chitatelju romanami "Starikam tut ne mesto" (film bratev Koen po etoj knige poluchil chetyre "Oskara") i "Doroga" (poluchil Pulittserovskuju premiju i takzhe byl ekranizirovan), "Pogranichnoj trilogiej" (pervyj roman kotoroj, "Koni, koni...", poluchil Natsionalnuju knizhnuju premiju SSHA i byl perenesen na ekran Billi Bobom Torntonom, glavnye roli ispolnili Mett Dejmon i Penelopa Krus) i "Krovavym meridianom". Osoboe mesto v ego nasledii zanimaet epichnaja tragikomedija "Sattri" - "nemyslimoe - i pritom sovershenno organichnoe - sochetanie "Ulissa" Dzhejmsa Dzhojsa i "Konservnogo rjada" Dzhona Stejnbeka" (New York Times), "prakticheski avtobiografija" znamenitogo zatvornika. Itak, mesto dejstvija - Noksvill, shtat Tennessi; na dvore 1950-e gody. Kornelius Sattri, otprysk bogatoj semi, po neizvestnym prichinam brosil zhenu s malenkim synom i poselilsja v plavuchem dome na reke. On pitaetsja ryboj, kotoruju sam vylovil, pet vse, chto gorit (i chto prinosjat druzja), provodit vremja zhizni "v obschestve vorov, otschepentsev, negodjaev... bezdelnikov, grubijanov, pentjukhov, ubijts, igrokov, svodnits... olukhov, shmarovozov... i prochikh raznoobraznykh i zlonamerennykh pakostnikov", no ne terjaet chelovecheskogo dostoinstva i smotrit na mir s otreshennoj neposredstvennostju.

En far och hans son vandrar genom ett nedbränt amerikanskt landskap. Snön som faller blandas med askan i luften. Deras mål är kusten, utan att de vet vad som väntar dem där. Allt mannen och hans son har är en pistol att försvara sig med mot banditerna som rör sig längs vägen, en kundvagn med mat de har hittat, kläderna de går i och varandra.Cormac McCarthys (1933-2023) roman om världen efter katastrofen blev en litterär sensation då den utkom 2006 och har också filmatiserats med Viggo Mortensen i huvudrollen. Den franska serieskaparen Manu Larcenet har med författarens tillstånd adapterat McCarthys berättelse om civilisationens slut till en grafiskt anslående och gripande tecknad serie.

Kormak Makkarti - sovremennyj amerikanskij klassik glavnogo kalibra, laureat Makarturovskoj stipendii "Za genialnost", master slozhnykh perezhivanij i nestandartnogo sintaksisa, khorosho izvestnyj nashemu chitatelju romanami "Starikam tut ne mesto" (film bratev Ko-en po etoj knige poluchil chetyre "Oskara"), "Doroga" (poluchil Pulitse-rovskuju premiju i takzhe byl ekranizirovan) i "Krovavyj meridian" ("svoego roda smes Dantova "Ada", "Iliady" i "Mobi Dika", po vyrazheniju Bukerovskogo laureata Dzhona Benvilla).Romany "Koni, koni..." (udostoennyj Natsionalnoj knizhnoj premii SSHA i perenesennyj na ekran Billi Bobom Torntonom, glavnye roli ispolnili Mett Dejmon i Penelopa Krus), "Za chertoj" i "Sodom i Gomorra" sostavljajut "Pogranichnuju trilogiju". Eto velikolepnoe sochetanie geroicheskoj sagi i melodramy, proniknutoe prjamotoj klassicheskogo vesterna i elegichnostju poluzabytogo mifa. Zdes junye geroi - to li zhelaja, kak vse podrostki, stat nastojaschimi muzhchinami, to li snedaemye amerikanskoj strastju k peremene mest, to li povinujas zovu svjatogo Graalja - odnazhdy sadjatsja na konej i, perepravivshis cherez reku, otdeljajuschuju Tekhas ot Meksiki, popadajut v mifologicheskoe prostranstvo. Oni budto oborachivajutsja gerojami drevnego zhestokogo eposa, gde ljudi vstrechajut prizrakov, a nasilie stremitelno, kak molnija...

Kormak Makkarti - sovremennyj amerikanskij klassik glavnogo kalibra, laureat Makarturovskoj stipendii "Za genialnost", master slozhnykh perezhivanij i nestandartnogo sintaksisa, khorosho izvestnyj nashemu chitatelju romanami "Starikam tut ne mesto" (film bratev Koen po etoj knige poluchil chetyre "Oskara"), "Doroga" (poluchil Pulitserovskuju premiju i takzhe byl ekranizirovan) i "Pogranichnoj trilogiej" (pervyj roman kotoroj, "Koni, koni...", poluchil Natsionalnuju knizhnuju premiju SSHA i byl perenesen na ekran Billi Bobom Torntonom, glavnye roli ispolnili Mett Dejmon i Penelopa Krus). No vpervye Makkarti proslavilsja imenno romanom "Krovavyj meridian, ili Zakatnyj bagrjanets na zapade", imenno posle etoj knigi o nem zagovorili ne tolko literaturnye kritiki, no i shirokaja publika. Mastityj anglichanin Dzhon Benvill, laureat Bukera, nazval etot roman "svoego roda smesju Dantova "Ada", "Iliady" i "Mobi Dika". Glavnyj geroj "Krovavogo meridiana", chetyrnadtsatiletnij podrostok iz Tennessi, izvestnyj lish kak Malets, stanovitsja geroem novejshego eposa, osnovannogo na realnykh sobytijakh i obstojatelstvakh tekhassko-meksikanskogo pogranichja serediny XIX veka, gde burno razvivaetsja rynok indejskikh skalpov...

Kormak Makkarti - sovremennyj amerikanskij klassik glavnogo kalibra, laureat Makarturovskoj stipendii "Za genialnost", master slozhnykh perezhivanij i nestandartnogo sintaksisa, khorosho izvestnyj nashemu chitatelju romanami "Starikam tut ne mesto", "Krovavyj meridian" i "Pogranichnoj trilogiej" ("Koni, koni...", "Za chertoj", "Sodom i Gomorra"). No samyj gromkij uspekh zhdal pozdnij roman metra: "Doroga" poluchila Pulitserovskuju premiju i pokorila vse myslimye spiski bestsellerov. Ne zamedlil posledovat i film, postavlennyj avstralijtsem Dzhonom Khillkoutom ("Predlozhenie", "Samyj pjanyj okrug v mire"); glavnye roli ispolnili Sharliz Teron i Viggo Mortensen, muzyku k filmu napisal Nik Kejv. Itak, posle katastrofy Otets i Syn idut cherez vyzhzhennye zemli, peresekaja kontinent. Vsju knigu pronizyvajut glubokie, ranjaschie v samoe serdtse voprosy. Est li smysl zhit, esli buduschego - net? Voobsche net. Est li smysl zhit radi detej? Eto roman o tom, chto vse v zhizni otnositelno, chto takie ponjatija, kak dobro i zlo, v opredelennykh uslovijakh perestajut rabotat i terjajut smysl. Eto roman o tom, chto dejstvitelno vazhno v zhizni, i o tom, kak eto tsenit. I eto takzhe roman o smerti, o tom, chto vse kogda-nibud konchaetsja, i poetomu nuzhno kazhdyj den prinimat takim, kakoj est. Nuzhno prosto... zhit.

Cornelius Suttree har forlatt kone og barn, tatt et endelig farvel med sin privilegerte familiebakgrunn og slått seg ned ved Tennessee-elvens bredder. Nå bor han i en husbåt og lever side om side med samfunnets utskudd.Romanen følger Suttree over en femårsperiode der han blir kjent med de mest merkverdige typer: forbrytere, prostituerte, drukkenbolter og sågar en heks. Suttree tiltrekker seg et mangfold av kvinner, men kjærlighetslivet hans er like ulykksalig som resten av tilværelsen hans.Suttree er en av Cormac McCarthys mest humoristiske romaner, til tross for alt den rommer av mørke og brutalitet. Det er en eventyrlig roman om frihet og samhold, som er blitt kalt en krysning mellom Ulysses og Huckleberry Finn. Den utkommer nå for første gang på norsk.

«Suspende el alma del lector y, al mismo tiempo, lo arrebata en su belleza. -El Pa s Billy y Boyd, dos adolescentes de origen campesino, ir n descubriendo las duras reglas del mundo de los adultos al tiempo que encuentran en la naturaleza el sentido heroico de sus vidas. Desde una extra a relaci n de afecto y complicidad con una loba acosada por los tramperos hasta el asesinato de sus padres a manos de unos cuatreros, Billy aprender que la belleza y la rapi a moral representan los l mites inseparables de una misma aventura vital. En la frontera es el segundo volumen de la «Trilog a de la frontera . ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy--From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road--fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horsesand at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning--a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there." An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Cherez razvaliny postapokalipticheskoj Ameriki, cherez kholod, golod i polchischa kannibalov, terrorizirujuschikh poslednikh vyzhivshikh, otets i syn idut k juzhnomu poberezhju. Eto ikh edinstvennaja nadezhda v mire, gde nadezhdy pochti ne ostalos. No sumejut li oni dobratsja do zavetnoj tseli? Originalnyj roman Kormaka Makkarti v 2007 godu poluchil Pulittserovskuju premiju i stal bestsellerom. V 2009 godu vyshla ego pervaja adaptatsija, film s Viggo Mortensenem v glavnoj roli. Manju Larsene predstavil svoj vzgljad na uzhe kultovyj roman - pronzitelnuju i dramatichnuju istoriju ob umershem mire i otchajannoj pogone za nadezhdoj.

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet. Named a "must-read graphic novel" by Amazon."Superb. A suitably dark graphic treatment of McCarthy’s postapocalyptic masterpiece." (Kirkus) The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat, The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakest and most prescient novels. Dedicated to his son, John Francis McCarthy, McCarthy’s The Road is one of his most personal novels. Ranked 17th on The Guardian’s 100 Best Novels of the 21st century, it was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, and the James Tait Black Memorial Award, the Believer Award, and it was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This first official graphic novel adaptation of McCarthy’s work is illustrated by acclaimed French cartoonist Manu Larcenet, who ably transforms the world depicted by McCarthy’s spare and brutal prose into stark ink drawings that add an additional layer to this haunting tale of family love and human perseverance. Cormac McCarthy personally approved the making of this book before his death, and the adaptation bears the approval of the McCarthy estate. Among other accolades,

Kormak Makkarti - sovremennyj amerikanskij klassik glavnogo kalibra, laureat Makarturovskoj stipendii "Za genialnost", master slozhnykh perezhivanij i nestandartnogo sintaksisa, khorosho izvestnyj nashemu chitatelju romanami "Starikam tut ne mesto" (film bratev Koen po etoj knige poluchil chetyre "Oskara") i "Doroga" (poluchil Pulitserovskuju premiju i takzhe byl ekranizirovan), "Pogranichnoj trilogiej" (pervyj roman kotoroj, "Koni, koni...", poluchil Natsionalnuju knizhnuju premiju SSHA i byl perenesen na ekran Billi Bobom Torntonom, glavnye roli ispolnili Mett Dejmon i Penelopa Krus) i "Krovavym meridianom". Osoboe mesto v ego nasledii zanimaet epichnaja tragikomedija "Sattri" - "nemyslimoe - i pritom sovershenno organichnoe - sochetanie "Ulissa" Dzhejmsa Dzhojsa i "Konservnogo rjada" Dzhona Stejnbeka" (New York Times), "prakticheski avtobiografija" znamenitogo zatvornika. Itak, mesto dejstvija - Noksvill, shtat Tennessi; na dvore 1950-e gody. Kornelius Sattri, otprysk bogatoj semi, po neizvestnym prichinam brosil zhenu s malenkim synom i poselilsja v plavuchem dome na reke. On pitaetsja ryboj, kotoruju sam vylovil, pet vse, chto gorit (i chto prinosjat druzja), provodit vremja zhizni "v obschestve vorov, otschepentsev, negodjaev... bezdelnikov, grubijanov, pentjukhov, ubijts, igrokov, svodnits... olukhov, shmarovozov... i prochikh raznoobraznykh i zlonamerennykh pakostnikov", no ne terjaet chelovecheskogo dostoinstva i smotrit na mir s otreshennoj neposredstvennostju. Vpervye na russkom!Perevodchik: Nemtsov Maksim V.

Set in rural Tennessee between the world wars, The Orchard Keeper is the unique, darkly biblical debut novel from the legendary author of Blood Meridian and The Road, Cormac McCarthy.'McCarthy has the best kind of Southern style' – New York TimesJohn Wesley Rattner is a young boy when his father is murdered. Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger, strangled him to death.By chance, John and Marion will meet. They will not recognize each other; John will not know what this man has done.An experimental debut following in the footsteps of William Faulkner, this is a magnificent conjuring of an American landscape – and a devastating portrayal of innocence lost.Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.'A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life' – Harper’sPraise for Cormac McCarthy:‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series'[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

A dark, nihilistic tale, Cormac McCarthy's second novel Outer Dark sees brother and sister wander separately through a countryside scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers.In an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the beginning of the twentieth century, a woman named Rinthy bears her brother's child.The brother, Culla, abandons the baby in the woods, and tells Rinthy that he has died by natural causes. When she sees his grave empty, she sets forth alone to find her son.Wracked by sin, Culla too leaves for the countryside. He will be haunted by The Trio, punishers and murderers, as the novel moves towards its eerie, apocalyptic resolution.Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.'A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time' – TimePraise for Cormac McCarthy:‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series'[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

In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian.‘Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair' – Times Literary Supplement1951. Cornelius Suttree lives alone, exiled on a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River. As we meet him, Suttree watches the police haul the body of a suicidal man from the water. Amongst the living, the river is home to hermits, sex workers, alcoholics – and a witch.Conjuring James Joyce's Ulysses, Suttree wanders the river with a detachment and wry humour, encountering a broad cast of humanity as he does – even as dereliction and destitution threaten the last of his remaining dignity.'Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear' – New York TimesPraise for Cormac McCarthy:‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series'[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

Cormac McCarthy plumbs the depths of human degradation in Child of God, his most brutally violent, shocking work. From the author of Blood Meridian and The Road.1960s, Tennessee. Lester Ballard is a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman, dispossessed on his ancestral land. Homeless, indulging in voyeurism, he is accused of rape.When he is released from jail, he begins to haunt the hilly landscape – preying upon its population, unleashing his impulse for sexualised violence.Commonplace humanity becomes grotesque and, as the story hurtles toward its unforgettable conclusion, McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with empathy and lyricism.'A powerful and talented writer, able to elicit compassion for his protagonist however terrible his action' – Sunday TimesPraise for Cormac McCarthy:‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series'[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

Kormak Makkarti - sovremennyj amerikanskij klassik glavnogo kalibra, laureat Makarturovskoj stipendii "Za genialnost", master slozhnykh perezhivanij i nestandartnogo sintaksisa, khorosho izvestnyj nashemu chitatelju romanami "Starikam tut ne mesto" (film bratev Koen po etoj knige poluchil chetyre "Oskara"), "Doroga" (poluchil Pulitserovskuju premiju i takzhe byl ekranizirovan) i "Pogranichnoj trilogiej" (pervyj roman kotoroj, "Koni, koni...", poluchil Natsionalnuju knizhnuju premiju SSHA i byl perenesen na ekran Billi Bobom Torntonom, glavnye roli ispolnili Mett Dejmon i Penelopa Krus). No vpervye Makkarti proslavilsja imenno romanom "Krovavyj meridian, ili Zakatnyj bagrjanets na zapade", imenno posle etoj knigi o nem zagovorili ne tolko literaturnye kritiki, no i shirokaja publika. Mastityj anglichanin Dzhon Benvill, laureat Bukera, nazval etot roman "svoego roda smesju Dantova "Ada", "Iliady" i "Mobi Dika". Glavnyj geroj "Krovavogo meridiana", chetyrnadtsatiletnij podrostok iz Tennessi, izvestnyj lish kak "malets", stanovitsja geroem novejshego eposa, osnovannogo na realnykh sobytijakh i obstojatelstvakh tekhassko-meksikanskogo pogranichja serediny XIX veka, gde burno razvivaetsja rynok indejskikh skalpov... "Krovavyj meridian" byl vnesen v spisok "100 luchshikh knig na anglijskom jazyke, izdannykh v period s 1923 po 2005 god" po versii zhurnala Time. V 2006 godu The New York Times pomestila etot roman na vtoroe mesto spiska luchshej amerikanskoj prozy, opublikovannoj za poslednie 25 let.

Pulitzer-palkitun kulttikirjailijan huikea sisarteos Matkustajalle.”Cormac McCarthy on parempi kuin koskaan! – – Stella Maris ja Matkustaja yhdessä ovat McCarthyn uran rikkaimmat ja väkevimmät teokset. – – Kaiken julmuuden keskellä McCarthy päästää rohkeuden ja nerokkuuden valloilleen. Lopputulos ei ole heikkoa lepatusta, vaan elämää säkenöivä roihu.” — The AtlanticAlicia on kapinallinen matematiikkanero, harhainen – ja liian kaunis tähän maailmaan. Ideoita sinkoilevassa dialogiromaanissa Alicia hakee kaiken merkitystä ja mieltä keskustellessaan psykiatrinsa kanssa. Hän muistaa kaiken, tapaa hulvattomia olentoja, jotka näkyvät vain hänen silmilleen, ja kantaa isänperintönä atomipommin painoista syyllisyyttä. Mutta suurinta on rakkaus omaan veljeen, Matkustaja-kirjan Bobbyyn.Stella Maris on korkealentoisen säkenöivää ja tiheää pohdintaa tieteestä, kvanttifysiikasta, filosofiasta, musiikista, muistista, alitajunnasta, hulluudesta, itsemurhasta. Surun ja selittämättömän kaipuun syväluotaava kuvaus riipaisee.Cormac McCarthy (s. 1933) on Yhdysvaltojen merkittävimpiä ja arvostetuimpia kirjailijoita. Pulitzer-palkinnon Tie-romaanista voittanut kulttikirjailija on julkaissut 12 romaania. McCarthyn teokset ovat keränneet lukuisia kirjallisuuspalkintoja ja useita niistä on filmatisoitu. McCarthy on tunnettu etelän rajaseutujen karunkauniin maiseman ja väkivallan leimaaman elämän runollisena kuvaajana. Teokset Matkustaja ja Stella Maris huipentavat suuren tekijän elämäntyön. Kerronta on riipivän kaunista ja eksistentiaalista melankoliaa tihkuvaa.

A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates a sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats. Missing from the crash site are the plane 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 atom bomb; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. From the bar rooms 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, and one of the final works by Cormac McCarthy, a true American master.