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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive. 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. 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
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive. 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. 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
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: McCarthy, Cormac
- ISBN: 9780307387899
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.00 x 0.90
- Number Of Pages: 304
- Publication Year: 2007
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Life is meaningless McCarthy style.
Tera B. - 9 months agoThe Road is one of the most depressing, stark and lonely books a person can read and it is absolutely amazing. McCarthy creates a world that has fallen off of its precipice. Nothing can grow anymore, the cities have emptied and the few humans left scramble for food, resorting to even eating each other. The story follows a boy and his father and their harrowing journey to stay alive. Stripped away from the normal world The Road explores the worth of a human life and the extremes humans go to preserve themselves. Backed by minimal and poignant pose McCarthy carves a dim future where all that matters page after page is the hope of one little boy.
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The Road is long and tough!
Zakarriah R. - 10 months agoIt is said that Cormac McCarthy wrote this while staying the night in a hotel in El Paso, Texas while his son was sleeping. It is a fast but intense story of a father and son moving across the wasteland of America after the world has ended. McCarthy is very poetic in his writing. He writes elegant lines that build the world he lays out in the book. He has a way of writing that makes you feel you are on the journey and it is happening as you read. It has funny moments and terribly sad moments. This book gets better and better each time I read it!
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A heartbreaking odyssey told in shades of grey
Sara E. - 1 year 10 months agoSince its initial publication in 2006, pop culture has been inundated with post-apocalyptic tales. Still, nothing compares to The Road. An intimate, tender story of a father and his son, alone but for the other and alive by the love they share. Their humanity is a miracle in McCarthys landscape of violence and destruction. His eerie, savage vision of the world after devastation is rendered with a complete lack of color and life, bleakly luminous with the beauty of its language. The enduring goodness of man and child glows amidst the horror of civilizations end. Read this if you love Cormac McCarthy's other books. Read this if you love apocalypse films. Read this if you're a sucker for gorgeous language. Read this if you've never read it. It will stay with you.
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Welcome to Depressing Land
Tera B. - 2 years 3 months agoThe world is over. No more food can grow, animals have died out, and the last few humans are scrambling for anything to keep them alive. The Road is utterly soul-crushing, haunting, and something everyone should read. Cormac McCarthy enfolds the reader into a stark, post-apocalyptic world that follows the journey of a father and son as they struggle to survive. Simple and poignant prose carries the weight of the story as the duo move in the ashen remnants of a lost Earth. The Road is a literary novel at its core wearing a sci-fi cover; it explores what it means to be human when there is nothing else in existence. A must read for any post-apocalyptic enthusiast or McCarthy obsessed reader.
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A Rich, Dark and Poetic Classic
Ryan B. - 3 years 3 months agoIn the near post-apocalyptic future where food is scarce and cannibalism is rampant, a man and his boy set out upon the road. The Road is set on the intercrossing highways of the continental United States, but the road is also a metaphor for so much more. McCarthy's rich, dark and poetic narrative keeps the reader enthralled from beginning to end. The Road is a tale of survival against the elements and the perseverance of hope in the human heart.
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