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The Passenger
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road.
‘A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song’ – The Guardian
1980, Mississippi. It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges into the darkness of the ocean. His dive light illuminates a sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box – and the tenth passenger . . .
Now a collateral witness to this disappearance, Bobby is discouraged from speaking of what he has seen. He is a man haunted: by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima, and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.
One of the final works by Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger is book one in a duology. It is followed by Stella Maris.
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- Declan Bruton
- 17-12-22
Perfect
We are lucky to have Cormac McCarthy.
This is a beautiful masterpiece worth the wait.
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- Paulo Wolfgang
- 27-10-22
Think I'm going give it another listen.
The characters made me laugh. Enjoyed the story. Mind bending. Definitely worth a read.
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- Christopher
- 16-05-23
Tremendous
I think most readers will either love or loathe this book, which is the only book I’ve ever immediately read again upon finishing. I personally found some parts simply infuriating and others, absolutely spell binding. I must have listened to the final chapter ten times. I adore this book.
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- OHW
- 19-05-24
Complex narrative
A story with complex narrative but worth the time. some of the conversations are superb
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- Luke S
- 10-01-23
Deep and engaging, with the very best narration
It's McCarthy - of course it's brilliant, but the two narrators are worth the price (and more) alone. A wonderful listening experience
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- Tracey J Dalton and Richard Welfare
- 07-01-23
Wow
One of the best books I read/listened to in ages. Well worth the 10 year wait. Sparse and haunting, poetic and clever.
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- bruce butt
- 14-01-23
Stunning
Not the place to begin but, perhaps aptly, the place to finish. I have read this title and, more recently, Stella Maris, so I felt I needed to come back for a more considered appraisal. This story has a little of all McCarthy’s work as well as a number of features really not seen before. I cannot help but read/hear this as a synthesis not only of his previous stories but, also, as a final statement in his singular outlook and , for want of a better word, philosophy. It seems to me to be a book all about the struggle for understanding. On a reappraisal I thought it was outstanding.
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- Gareth
- 13-11-22
it's a great book, just not as good as others
McCarthy gives us another great book in the passenger, it's prose is lovely, it's characters are great, it's quite funny and not nearly as bleak as most of his others, still bleak mind you but it retreads a lot of the same narrative as suttree and no country for old men the struggle to deal with grief and find meaning in your life. looking forward to Stella Maris which may very well be his last book.
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- Mr. M. A. Denton
- 07-12-22
Wonderful
Wonderful book which sweeps from ephemera to engineering, to pain and philosophy, to love to loss and maybe a sort of peace. I have a suspicion it’s not for everyone but I absolutely adored this. A friend of mine didn’t get past the 10th page. Probably says it all. It’s who you are that’s going to depend on what you get out of this book.
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- christine gray
- 17-12-22
Really struggled with this.
Thought I would try something a bit more demanding but found this really boring. Picked up a little towards the end
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