Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group imprint Alfred A. Knopf announced today that it will publish Cormac McCarthy’s new novels The Passenger and Stella Maris this fall.
The former title will be published on October 25, with the latter being unveiled on November 22, and a box set of both volumes set for publication on December 6.The novels, set eight years apart, tell one grand story of siblings Bobby and Alicia Western.The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.
1980, Pass Christian, Mississippi: It is three in the morning when Bobby zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness.
His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation.
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