The Passenger
28 September 2023Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road.
‘A gorgeous ruin in the shape of...
Details
28 September 2023432 pages
9780330457439Imprint: Picador
Reviews
An appealing piece of work . . . gripping, with plenty of reflection and evocationThe Daily Telegraph
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 melancholicThe Guardian
A moving and characteristically disconcerting addition to the oeuvre of one of America’s greatest writersThe Irish Times
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 needNew Statesman
