McCarthy, Cormac 1933-2023 creator author. text novel Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. nyu 2023 monographic eng

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189 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 21 cm "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."-- Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. n-us-wi 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 Fiction PS3563.C337 S74 2023 813.54 9780307389107 230622 20250103155135.0 zminfo b493165