While the Westerns’ doomed love story drives the narratives, McCarthy seems most interested in his characters’ ideas about the nature of time and reality. The story unfolds as dialogue between Alicia and her doctors, as she describes how her pursuit of revolutionary mathematical theories brought her to the brink of madness.
She is suicidal and hears voices that manifest as characters from a Vaudevillian nightmare, including the Kid, a foul-mouthed dwarf with flippers for hands. “Stella Maris” unfolds in 1972 at a mental institution in Wisconsin, where Alicia has been admitted and diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He sheds his identity but can’t escape his past, and he is tormented by memories of Alicia, a mentally unstable genius who killed herself.
After his co-worker turns up dead, he is trailed by strange men in suits and goes on the run.
Set mostly in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 1980, it follows Bobby, who works as a salvage diver and discovers something suspicious in the wreckage of a sunken jet. At nearly 400 pages, “The Passenger” reads at times like a thriller, albeit a digressive, metaphysical one. So in honor of Cormac McCarthy's birthday this year (July 20th!) we found nine post-apocalyptic thrillers that will keep you on the edge of your seat while you desperately root for the characters to survive-just like The Road.The novels tell the tragic story of Bobby and Alicia Western, siblings who are haunted by their physicist father’s role in the development of the atom bomb, and by their romantic longing for each other. And that’s probably why post-apocalyptic novels take root in our hearts. And how far you might deviate from morality in order to survive.īy confronting your fears, you can find bravery and strength. You’re forced to really examine what those circumstances would be like. He maintains a gritty realism and refuses to paint a shiny façade on mankind. There’s very little to cheer for in McCarthy’s story. It's a story about a father and son making their way through a desolate America with only a pistol and a shopping cart. Rather than focus on heroism and action, Cormac McCarthy tapped into something far deeper and more profound when he released The Road in 2006. It’s easy to decide how you’d act in those extreme situations from the comfort of your own home.
Or the way humanity can overcome even the worst-even in themselves. Maybe it’s the will to survive in the face of devastation. There’s something about characters facing the end of the world that we readers love.
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