<p><b>God. Truth. Existence. From the legendary author Cormac McCarthy, <i>Stella Maris</i> is a masterful coda to <i>The Passenger</i>.<br><br>'It's an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe' &ndash; <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>A mathematician, twenty years-old, is admitted to the hospital. She has forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, and one request. She does not want to talk about her brother.<br><br>Stella Maris is book two in a duology, preceded by <i>The Passenger</i>.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>The Passenger</i>:</b><br><br>'What a glorious sunset song . . . It&rsquo;s rich and it&rsquo;s strange, mercurial and melancholic' &ndash; <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'The Passenger shows that McCarthy belongs in the company of Melville and Dostoevsky, writers the world will never cease to need' &ndash; <i>New Statesman</i><br><br><b>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:</b><br><br>&lsquo;McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute&rsquo; &ndash; Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road </i>and <i>The Wren, The Wren</i><br><br>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' &ndash; Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br><br>'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' &ndash; Annie Proulx, author of <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p>