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The Passenger 2022
The Passenger is a 2022 novel written by American author Cormac McCarthy. It came out six weeks before its follow-up novel Stella Maris. Both The Passenger and Stella Maris tell the story of Bobby and Alicia Western, siblings whose father contributed to atomic bomb development.
This marked McCarthy's first book since The Road, which appeared sixteen years earlier. He had been working on The Passenger off and on since 1980. Critics generally responded positively to the novel.
Details
- Publisher
- Knopf
- ISBN
- 9780307268990
- Pages
- 383
- Format





