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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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4 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is the saddest book ever written. The father figure is in the most hopeless situation of all time. There has been some kind of nuclear catastrophe. The air is largely unbreathable. His wife has comitted suicide. There are no more animals or plant life. And the remaining humans are either banded into cannibalistic hoardes or pitiful wanderers. The father and the son survive day to day on whatever canned food they can gather from hidden stores in vacant households. All the while moving toward the unknown seashore. The father carries a gun to kill himself and his son should they be captured by cannibals. Did I mention that the situation was hopeless? The brilliance in this book is in describing the relationship between the father and son. I have never read anything like it. As the father of an 8 year old boy, this book affected me.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Although the context of this book may be viewed as depressing and dark, there has been no greater book that I have read to make me feel more alive and thankful for the abundance my life offers. Any man who would call himself a father would do no less for their son than the man in this book. Ending provides a hopeful outcome that the reader must determine.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A fine readable book. It certainly is novel in plot and development.
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I had to finish this book just to see if there was any redeeming quality to it. There wasn't. Depressing from beginning to end. If you are in to that kind of writing you will enjoy this.
Brian E. (Excellent character development.. not through long wordy paragraphs about them or a complete history of how they got where they were, but through how they react to their present environment. A man and his son on "The Road", trying to reach warmer climate after everything has burned (I'm assuming nuclear war--although they never really hit radiation). The entire world is gray, ash filled, and nearly devoid of life. Starvation and freezing are as big a danger as the struggle to avoid those who remain alive by preying on others. There is no one they can trust except each other.
My only complaint with the book is it ends too soon... it could have kept going (because it was so good). Very enjoyable read... gripping, emotionally moving, it does a great job of putting you in the character's shoes and getting you to root for things to work out for them as they struggle to survive. Definitely read it before you see the movie...
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