The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy

The Passenger

By Cormac McCarthy

  • Release Date: 2022-10-25
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 373 Ratings

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: 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.

Look for Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, on sale December 6th, 2022

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s 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 bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.
 
Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms 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.

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Reviews

  • Strangely Unsatisfying

    4
    By TheGreatMangini
    Beautiful prose, like a poem. Interesting facts and plots that never materialize. Missing pieces throughout. Left me tired.
  • I’m going to miss Cormac

    5
    By Grandfather50
    An incredible book by a great American author
  • Depressing

    2
    By Grandma Sel
    Long and tiresome. So not my favorite.
  • The weight of things

    5
    By Scott's take on things
    This is a story about love and death.
  • The Passenger

    5
    By CraigDash
    Both books are fantastic!
  • Excruciatingly bad

    1
    By Heat500
    This book was, by far, the worst gargantuan word salad ever printed. While I get what the author was probably trying to say, the “story” read like he was copying a vast ocean of rarely used words, mixing them up in a giant verbal blender, and puking them onto a page. Even I could do that. The word processor had to have been hacked by extraterrestrials. I thoroughly enjoyed the author’s “The Road”. What happened? I wish I could get a refund for this dog’s breakfast.
  • Amazing

    5
    By Chris Shinn
    Just finished both books. — Amazing.
  • Not just dark but confusing

    2
    By redhead2115
    I can’t say I really understood this book. The main character who, still in love with his dead sister, Wanders aimlessly among his many and varied acquaintances while seemingly being hunted by some unknown government entity. Perhaps it was just over my head, but I found it tedious and uninspiring. And I am usually a huge fan of Cormac McCarthy.disappointed
  • Disappointing

    2
    By FreethinkerX
    I've read all of McCarthy's novels (the hardcover n this case). With The Passenger, he is just showing off to no worthwhile or consistent purpose. Somewhere in here is a 200-ish page novel that would work. Occasional brief passages highlight his abilities. However, McCarthy's editor needed to reign in his meandering story to achieve greater impact.
  • Well,Well

    5
    By Lou Vest
    I won’t pretend I understood it at an intellectual level, but I like the way his books rearrange the connections between old neurons. His prose, images and rhythms pick the reader up like a great wave that rolls on with you.