The author's 12th novel, 'Stella Maris,' publishes on Tuesday. It's high time for a complete reader's guide to the Western novelist, from 'The Crossing' to 'The Passenger.'
Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Passenger’ and ‘Stella Maris’ display his brilliance in full, exploring math, physics and incest in a brother-sister story.For a debut, the book is pretty solid. Set in Tennessee during the early part of the last century, it tells the story of a young man sworn to avenge his father’s murder, although as ever with McCarthy, the questions of guilt and redress are complicated by all the things we can never truly know.
While it is set along the Texas-Mexico border during the 1850s, its concerns have more to do with the brutality of the Southern novels than with the more elegiac tone of the later Western books. Here McCarthy presents apocalypse as a peculiarly American state of being, following a 14-year-old known only as the kid as he travels with the Glanton gang, who roamed the region massacring Indigenous people. Along with “Outer Dark” and “Child of God,” it’s among his greatest works.
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