Stella Maris /
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TextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2023Description: 189 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780307389107Subject(s): 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 | Mental disorders | Wisconsin -- History -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Historical fiction. | Novels. DDC classification: 813.54 LOC classification: PS3563.C337 | S74 2023Summary: "The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road " 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."-- Provided by publisher
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Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
"The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road " 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."-- Provided by publisher
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