The road had enabled its author to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2006, and had sold more than 700,000 copies in France. A post-apocalyptic novel about the survival of a father and his son, the book had been adapted to the cinema three years later, with Viggo Mortensen in the lead role. Direct continuation of Passenger, Stella Maris illuminates the gray areas of the first book and offers a one-way trip to the other side of the looking glass.Ĭormac McCarthy had remained very silent since the publication of The road in 2006. A tormented world, ruled by the figures of her grandmother, her mentor, the mathematician Alexandre, and her brother Bobby, who loves her with an impossible love. Ten years after the events of the first book, we find Alicia Western, twenty years old, in Wisconsin, on the occasion of a therapy where the young American will try to give the keys to her inner world. McCarthy makes this a Christian allegory through the post-apocalyptic world, when the clocks stop at 1:17, the Boys innocence, and God like characteristics in the Boy. The author had announced the publication of two novels in 2022, including The passenger (De l’Olivier) published in March 2023 in France, and Stella Maris (De l’Olivier), sequel to the latter published today. Through allusions and imagery to Christianity and the Bible in 'The Road', Cormac McCarthy has written this novel as a Christian allegory. At 89, Cormac McCarthy signs his big comeback after 16 years of absence.
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