Posts tagged The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy’s Tragic Coda ‘Stella Maris’ Doubles As A Philosophic Seminar

(REVIEW) The novel, released Dec. 6, serves as a coda to the stories of siblings Bobby and Alicia Western, though it takes place before sister novel “The Passenger” began. The book is an ambitious dialogue-only novel that contains a tragic but fascinating heroine and deeply explores math, philosophy, physics and more.

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Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Passenger’ Asks One Important Question: Do You Believe In God?

(REVIEW) American novelist Cormac McCarthy often writes about people on the fringes of society who are isolated from true connection with others. His newest novel in a two-book set, “The Passenger,” is no different, but in it the protagonist still has plenty of conversations. In almost every conversation, one character asks, “Do you believe in God?”

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