The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His divelight 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 flightbag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with badges; 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.
Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.
2 有用 飘飘然 2023-01-06 14:10:26 美国
In a world lit by the evil sun of nuclear invention, all history is nothing more than a rehearsal for its own extinction. As opposed to the usual gnostic pessimism in McCarthy’s early works, this is n... In a world lit by the evil sun of nuclear invention, all history is nothing more than a rehearsal for its own extinction. As opposed to the usual gnostic pessimism in McCarthy’s early works, this is nihilism at its finest. (展开)
0 有用 Black Messiah 2025-07-14 08:24:59 比利时
Alicia, literally me.
0 有用 也驮 2024-04-06 12:02:15 加拿大
三点五星。 主题很贴近我的兴趣(不然我也不会尝试着去写那么一篇小说): 难以承受的过去。 文笔很海明威,主人公很内敛。一切似乎都踩在我的情趣点上。但就觉得有那么一点点过了,对话太精巧,金句太多,有些装。 最喜欢的人物是Kid,每个和Kid的场景都很精彩。
0 有用 xclair 2024-11-05 15:09:24 美国
Not only is there no measures of verity for his essays on physics and metaphysics, but the whole conversation is deeply disturbing and despairing.
0 有用 大林煎饼 2023-01-08 22:34:28 浙江
有些猜透这两本书的企图了,就是借着一个故事的壳去写一种压抑的人生,再写点性格只能说是比较有趣的边角人物。比较传统的小说观念是不推进情节的对话不必写,甚至必须删除,麦卡锡的水平当然是在这之上,而且这些对话也有塑造配角的作用,但这些餐馆的聊天只能算食之无味弃之可惜,拉扯出这样的长度在我看来是缺乏节制。第二本应该还是会读的吧,对写能写出什么来我还是有几分兴趣的,而且短。