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Beschreibung
'Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and new . . . McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.' - Anne Enright

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The top ten bestseller from the author of The Road, Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, afraid of the watery deep, and pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding.

'A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . It's rich and it's strange, mercurial and melancholic' - Guardian


1980, Mississippi: A sunken jet, nine passengers and a missing body.

It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges into the darkness of the ocean. His dive light illuminates a 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?

Now a collateral witness, Bobby is haunted 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 bars 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.

Look out for Stella Maris, the second book in the duology.
'Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and new . . . McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.' - Anne Enright

-----

The top ten bestseller from the author of The Road, Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, afraid of the watery deep, and pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding.

'A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . It's rich and it's strange, mercurial and melancholic' - Guardian


1980, Mississippi: A sunken jet, nine passengers and a missing body.

It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges into the darkness of the ocean. His dive light illuminates a 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?

Now a collateral witness, Bobby is haunted 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 bars 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.

Look out for Stella Maris, the second book in the duology.
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 400 S.
ISBN-13: 9780330535519
ISBN-10: 033053551X
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 24406
Ausstattung / Beilage: Trade Paperback
Autor: McCarthy, Cormac
Auflage: Air Iri OME
Hersteller: Picador
Macmillan Publishers International
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 30 x 154 x 239 mm
Von/Mit: Cormac McCarthy
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.2022
Gewicht: 0,487 kg
Artikel-ID: 121326981