Cormac, by the numbers- What's up?

[jody2.718]

From the NY Times review of "The Passenger" By John Jeremiah Sullivan:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/books/review/cormac-mccarthy-passenger.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Books

"When the divers get into the plane, they find that one of the bodies is missing. There are eight passengers on the manifest but only seven on board. Has someone escaped, after first causing the crash?

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But from PAN MACMILLAN AUSTRALIA:

https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9780330457422/

"1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flightbag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger

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7,8,9…10?

Jody

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