McCarthy Cormac
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Passenger novels volume 1
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2022.
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English
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"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the 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. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that...
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy.
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good...
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good...
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On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border. His hope is that this one-time deal will set him and his fiancée on a path to financial freedom, but instead he ends up in a brutal game that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves.
4) Stella Maris
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Passenger novels volume 2
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English
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"Stella Maris is 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...
5) Stella Maris
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Sechzehn Jahre nach seinem Weltbestseller Die Straße kehrt Pulitzer-Preisträger Cormac McCarthy zurück mit seinem zweibändigen Meisterwerk. Der Passagier und Stella Maris: Zwei Romane ohne Vorbild. Die Wahrheit des einen negiert die des anderen.
1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, zwanzig Jahre alt, lässt sich mit vierzigtausend Dollar in einer Plastiktüte und einem manifesten Todeswunsch in die Psychiatrie einweisen. Die Diagnose...
6) Die Straße
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Die Welt nach dem Ende der Welt
Die Welt nach der Welt gleicht der Welt vor der Schöpfung.
"Die Erde war wüst und leer, und es war finster auf der Tiefe". (Moses 1,2)
Ein Vater und sein Sohn wandern durch das verbrannte Amerika. Sie haben nichts als einen Revolver mit zwei Schuß Munition, ihre Kleider am Leib, eine Einkaufskarre mit der nötigsten Habe - und sie haben sich.
"die straße" ist ein Roman über das Schlimmste und Beste, zu dem die...