UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34974872
Ausgabe:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9781035006762
Inhalt:
" THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER '[McCarthy] writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read' 8211 Telegraph 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. "
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Biographisches: "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." Rezension(2): " Publisher's Weekly : June 27, 2022 McCarthy returns 16 years after his Pulitzer-winning The Road with a rich story of an underachieving salvage diver in 1980 New Orleans, the first in a two-volume work. Bobby Western, son of a nuclear physicist who worked on the atomic bomb, is tasked with investigating a private plane crash in the Gulf. The plane’s crew is dead, the black box is missing, and one passenger is unaccounted for. Soon, agents of the U.S. government begin to harass Western and his coworker, then this colleague turns up dead. This thriller narrative is intertwined with the story of Western’s sister, Alicia, a mathematical genius who had schizophrenia and died by suicide. In flashbacks of Alicia’s hallucinations, vaudevillian characters perform for her—most notably, a character named the Thalidomide Kid. Alicia and the Kid engage in numerous conversations about arcane philosophy, theology, and physics—staples of the philosopher-tramps, vagabonds, and sociopaths of McCarthy’s canon, though their presence doesn’t feel quite as thematically grounded as they do in his masterworks. Still, he dazzles with his descriptions of a beautifully broken New Orleans: “The rich moss and cellar smell of the city thick on the night air. A cold and skullcolored moon At times the city seemed older than Nineveh.” The book’s many pleasures will leave readers aching for the final installment."
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Hörbuch
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Mehr zum Autor:
McCarthy, Cormac
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