According to The Atlantic, Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger, published in 2022, along with its follow-up, Stella Maris, are "the richest and strongest work of McCarthy's career," and represent a genuine publishing event. The 89-year-old writer of No Country for Old Men (2005) and The Road (2006) is considered one of America's greatest living novelists, and these typically apocalyptic, bleak books could well be his last. The Passenger, writes The Irish Times, is "among McCarthy's most quietly reflective novels, recalling the moments of serenity amid scenes of devastation that made The Road so haunting." (RL)
