The Road

The Road

by Cormac Mc Carthy (Author)

Synopsis

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 grey. 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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More Information

Format: Unabridged
Pages: 256
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Picador
Published: 03 Nov 2006

ISBN 10: 033044753X
ISBN 13: 9780330447539
Prizes: Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Fiction 2007 and Quill Awards: General Fiction 2007 and Richard & Judy Book Club: Summer Read 2007 and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007. Shortlisted for RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008.

Author Bio
Cormac McCarthy is the author of nine previous novels, and among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.