The Passenger (McCarthy novel)

The Passenger
AuthorCormac McCarthy
Audio read byMacLeod Andrews
Julia Whelan
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
October 25, 2022
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages383
ISBN978-0-307-26899-0
Preceded byThe Road 
Followed byStella Maris 

The Passenger is a 2022 novel by the American writer Cormac McCarthy.[1] It was released six weeks before its companion novel Stella Maris. The plot of both The Passenger and Stella Maris follows Bobby and Alicia Western, two siblings whose father helped develop the atomic bomb.

The Passenger is McCarthy's first novel since The Road, sixteen years prior. [2] McCarthy had been writing The Passenger intermittently since 1980. It was generally well received by critics.

  1. ^ Grobar, Matt (March 8, 2022). "New Cormac McCarthy Novels 'The Passenger' And 'Stella Maris' To Be Published By Knopf This Fall". Deadline. Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  2. ^ Cain, Sian (March 8, 2022). "Cormac McCarthy: two new novels coming in 2022, 16 years after The Road". The Guardian. Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.