![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The day after the funeral, he goes swimming, starts a meaningless affair, then strolls off to the movies to see a comedy. His mother has just died, though he never bothers to inquire precisely when. It was the voice I connected with first, antihero Meursault's poker-faced assessment of a world that makes as little sense to him as mine did to me. He had a Kurdish bodyguard named Abdul who once killed a man with a knife.Īt the age of 14, I stumbled across The Stranger, Albert Camus' famous novel of absurdity and detachment. My father was killed when I was just an infant (pickup, train tracks), and my grandfather was an oil pipeline worker in the Middle East. I grew up on a mortgaged cattle ranch with a grandmother, who spoke in tongues, and a mother addicted to prescription pills: Percodan, Valium, Vicodin, you name it. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Stranger Author Albert Camus and Matthew Ward ![]()
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