2 Books Due Out From Pulitzer Winner Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy has two novels coming out this fall, his first fiction releases since the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road in 2006. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday that The Passenger, a long-rumored novel about "morality and science" and "the legacy of sin" that McCarthy reportedly began decades ago, would come out Oct. 25. Stella Maris, a prequel to The Passenger set eight years earlier, is scheduled for Nov. 22. The two works will be available as a box set on Dec. 6, per the AP.

"We have a plane crash, a trove of gold coins buried deep underground and hidden in copper pipes, a rare Amati violin that vanishes, an abandoned oil rig in the middle of the ocean, and an Italian race car seized by the IRS—an utterly gripping tale," McCarthy's editor at Knopf, Jenny Jackson, said in a statement. McCarthy, 88, is known for such Western and apocalyptic novels as The Road, Blood Meridian, and No Country for Old Men, which was adapted by the Coen brothers into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. His other honors include a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses.

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