The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Synopsis
A SUNKEN JET. NINE PASSENGERS. A MISSING BODY.
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.
Reviews
'A moving and characteristically disconcerting addition to the oeuvre of one of America’s greatest writers' - The Irish Times
'The Passenger is like a submerged ship itself; a gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song . . . It’s rich and it’s strange, mercurial and melancholic' - The Guardian
'Critics have detected the influence on him of Faulkner and Hemingway, but this is to understate his achievement. The Passenger shows that McCarthy belongs in the company of Melville and Dostoevsky, writers the world will never cease to need' - New Statesman
'[McCarthy] writers prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read' - Telegraph
About the Author
Cormac McCarthy is the author of many acclaimed novels, including The Road and Blood Meridian. Among his honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American literature.