The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy, America's finest author of postmodern westerns, switches gears and gives us a kafkaesk pageturner about a salvage diver named Bobby Western (A+ for literary trolling, love it). But make no mistake: This novel still ponders American myth, the 89-year-old author creatively twists his......more

What an absolute privilege to get to read this a few months ahead of publication. It was perhaps the best day I've had as a bookseller when this arrived in the post. It's seven years or more since I last read McCarthy. I had read The Road the year before and then devoured his entire catalogue in the......more

It’s 1980 and a small plane crashes into the ocean killing all nine passengers aboard. But when salvage diver Robert Western enters the underwater plane, he finds only eight bodies. Then men in black start showing up to ask him: what did he see down there? Did he take anything from the wreckage? And......more

This is a strange book — I’m sitting in a Starbucks (waiting for a doctors appointment across the street)…. and just finished this ‘long’ book…. Tons of swearing—as in every other sentence— But it also fits! The best part of this oddball novel for me was the narrative- chatter- dialogues. Parts were h......more

For the last 16 years, Cormac McCarthy’s swelling fan base has been circling, picking at crumbs of information about his next project. This month, the moment of unveiling has arrived with a tempest of publicity that’s sure to draw in even more readers. Prepare to be baffled. “The Passenger” exhibits M......more