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National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post
The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post
The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
I really enjoyed this book. I believe that it would be a great choice for a book club as the themes and questions about humanity would be an excellent discussion-starter. It is not a light-hearted book, but well worth reading.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
At first, the first 50-40 pages, I thought this book was really depressing. A desolation of country, a father and his son walking, walking on the road to.....it was hard to tell where. But the deeper meaning of never losing hope finally poked through---The things that really matter....not money or more things than one can carry The love that is timeless and eternal. It was a pretty fast read, once I got into it.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
One of the best post-apocalyptic novels I've read. McCarthy stays true to form as in Blood Meridian. The ending was a bit weak and disappointing--has Hollywood infected McCarthy's bleak mojo?
An ultimate thought experiment in existentialism--what is your life when everything has been stripped away?
His odd blend of homebrew syntax, sparse prose, and his dependence on his readers' imagination and insight to fill in the blanks makes reading his work both a delight and a challenge.
As all his other works--HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I personally hated it. Beyond depressing!!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Well written, moving, but sad beyond measure and incredibly depressing. I kept reading, thinking that there must be some hope, not a "happy ending" so to speak, but something, some fragment somewhere. They weren't kidding when they put "world without hope" in blurb on the back.
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I loved this tale of a father and son traveling, looking for relief or safety or salvation across a post apocalyptic America. It is a bleak and dark future. I was disturbed, but fascinated with his vision of the future. I highly recommend this book, but I doubt anyone could read it more then once.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book was wonderfully written. It highlights the depth of the human spirit.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Wow...a powerful, moving book. I was drawn in by the story. I got so emotionally involved that I had to stop reading in the middle of the story and find something to cheer me up - I was too depressed to keep reading. But I picked it back up the next day and finished it, and I'm glad I did. If you are like me and you're a speedy reader, it can be a little hard to read. Had to slow down. The writer's style was a little confusing. The author leaves so many questions unanswered, like what exactly happened to destroy the world and how long father and son have been traveling. He doesn't even tell you the characters' names or ages. The curiosity pulls you through the book, because you're searching for the details and the answers along the way. But it also makes it easy for any reader to relate to them and feel what the characters are experiencing along the way. They could be any father and son struggling to survive after any natural disaster.
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
id heard a lot of things about this book- and they were either really really great or really really bad. my mom bought it and loved it but she didnt think id like it....WRONG!!!
it's a beautifully written tale about a boy and his father who are travelling across the country looking for safety. the world has ended, everyone and everything is dead (though you have no clue when, where, why or how.) it's really interesting because the reader is given no information- how the characters came to be, their names, where they are from, nada. you just follow them on their journey- though they have no idea where they are going or why. they just must keep going, must find food, must find safety.
it's nothing like i've ever read before and i very much enjoyed it! yeah!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book is not about the end of the world. It's not about nuclear winter, man's inevitable murder of the planet, the inherent barbarity of man, none of that. This book is about the only thing that matters, a parent's love for a child, and what at the absolutely basic level of survival you can and cannot do for those whom you treasure most, what you will go through and what you must decide upon for them to have all they need and deserve.
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Robin H. (Call me jaded from all of the "end of the world" books and movies that I have read/seen in the recent past but I just wasn't impressed.
I cannot recommend this book enough. Please be warned, however, that it is extremely dark.
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