![]() “I was planning on writing about a woman for 50 years,” McCarthy told the Wall Street Journal in a 2009 interview. The 200-page novel, out on 22 November, follows Bobby’s sister Alicia, “a math prodigy whose intellect frightens people and whose hallucinations appear as characters, with their own distinct voices”. Stella Maris marks the first time McCarthy has focused on a female protagonist. The 400-page novel has “the pace and twists of a thriller” as Bobby is drawn into the mystery of the crash. He discovers that the black box, the pilot’s bag and one of the dead passengers are all missing. The Passenger, published on 25 October, opens as Bobby, a salvage diver working on the Gulf Coast in 1980, explores the wreckage of a sunken jet. ![]() ![]() McCarthy had delivered a full draft of one of the novels to his editors eight years ago, kept secret at the publishing house. On Tuesday evening, US publisher Knopf revealed McCarthy had the two books coming in 2022. ![]()
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