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Cormac McCarthy’s Respite From Loneliness | The New Republic

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The Passenger is an unusually loose, warm novel—full of theories and anecdotes, memories and stories.

Life and Letters Cormac McCarthy’s Respite From Loneliness The Passenger is an unusually loose, warm novel—full of theories and anecdotes, memories and stories. A man walks across a barren landscape. He may be wounded, or ill, but he is strong enough to survive. As he walks, he pays close attention to the landscape, noting changes in the wind and light, scanning for traces of animal or man. He must be careful—his very life depends on it. For the man, though strong and quick, is vulnerable: He is utterly alone, far from home and far from help, blessed and cursed by solitude. This man is the typ

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