02681cam a2200445 i 4500 1262072248 TxAuBib 220425s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022934755 9780307269003 hardcover 0307269000 hardcover (OCoLC)1334494437 TxAuBib rda McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-, author. Stella Maris / Cormac McCarthy. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. ©2022. 189 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""This is a Borzoi Book"" -- title page verso. The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia's psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.-- Amazon.com. BPL: David Winn Bishop and Isabel MacPherson Bishop Memorial Fund. Young women Fiction. Siblings Fiction. Mental illness Fiction. Paranoid schizophrenia Fiction. Mentally ill women Fiction. Schizophrenics Fiction. Women doctoral students Fiction. Women mathematicians Fiction. Psychiatric hospitals Fiction. Grief Fiction. Wisconsin Fiction. Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. Novels.