'Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and new . . .McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.' – Anne Enright—–The masterful coda to The Passenger from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road. GOD.TRUTH. EXISTENCE. Stella Maris is the story of a mathematician, twenty years old, admitted to the hospital with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag and one request: She does not want to talk about her brother.