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1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the…
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ZACK RUSKIN, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"A proper 400-page tome ... The totality of McCarthy's twin books is that of a doomed love story between brother and sister. Sharing, in unequal measure, a passion for one another that is scandalously far from platonic, McCarthy never outright references incest in either work, yet the subject looms large in both ... It's a compelling premise for a mystery, but answers are not the point of this dizzyingly metaphysical treatise on the human condition ... It's a lot to absorb, but the less you worry about how all these countless threads could possibly tie together, the better you'll be prepared for the eventual reality: They don't ... The legacy of McCarthy's new offerings is, much as the author would surely wish, both magnificent and cruelly impossible to define."

Форма: роман

Оригинальное название: The Passenger

Дата написания: 2022

Первая публикация: 2022

Язык: Английский

Номинант: 2023 г.Медаль Эндрю Карнеги (Художественная книга)

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