Bibliograph

Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy

Type

Label

Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Stella Maris

Medium

text large print

Oclc number

1352453276

Responsibility statement

Cormac McCarthy

Series statement

Passenger series, 2

Summary

1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia<U+2019>s psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence

Target audience

adult

Classification