2023-05-05 13:03:11
After 16 years of absence, the American author is back with his second book of 2023, the sequel to Passenger (2023).
At 89, Cormac McCarthy signs his big comeback following 16 years of absence. The author had announced the publication of two novels in 2022, including The passenger (De l’Olivier) published in March 2023 in France, and Stella Maris (De l’Olivier), sequel to the latter published today. Ten years following the events of the first book, we find Alicia Western, twenty years old, in Wisconsin, on the occasion of a therapy where the young American will try to give the keys to her inner world. A tormented world, ruled by the figures of her grandmother, her mentor, the mathematician Alexandre, and her brother Bobby, who loves her with an impossible love. Direct continuation of Passenger, Stella Maris illuminates the gray areas of the first book and offers a one-way trip to the other side of the looking glass.
Pulitzer Prize in 2006
Cormac McCarthy had remained very silent since the publication of The road in 2006. A post-apocalyptic novel regarding the survival of a father and his son, the book had been adapted to the cinema three years later, with Viggo Mortensen in the lead role. The road had enabled its author to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2006, and had sold more than 700,000 copies in France.
Not very prolific since 1968 and the publication of his first novel The Guardian of the OrchardCormac McCarthy is today considered one of the greatest contemporary authors, emblematic of the « Southern Gothic ». This uniquely American literary genre is inspired by the south of the country, with its swamps, bayous and old plantations.
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Screenwriter for Ridley Scott in Cartel (2013), Cormac McCarthy saw another of his novels brought to the screen, No Country for Old Men by the Coen brothers in 2007.
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