No regular reader of Cormac McCarthy will be surprised to find that The Passenger begins with a corpse. Or two corpses, really, one of which has gone missing. The one we see, in the italicized, single-page prologue with which the book begins, is of a frozen golden-haired girl found hanging “among the bare gray poles […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/22/language-destroyer-of-worlds-the-passenger-cormac-mccarthy/