The Road

The Road

by Cormac Mc Carthy (Author)

Synopsis

A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This is the profoundly moving story of their journey. "The Road" boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which two people, '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. 'The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature ...An absolutely wonderful book that people will be reading for generations' - Andrew O'Hagan. 'A work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away' - Tom Gatti, "The Times". 'So good that it will devour you, in parts. It is incandescent' - Niall Griffiths, "Daily Telegraph". 'You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerised. All the modern novel can do is done here' - Alan Warner, "Guardian".

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More Information

Format: Unabridged
Pages: 256
Edition: Unabridged
Publisher: Picador
Published: 01 Jun 2007

ISBN 10: 0330447548
ISBN 13: 9780330447546
Prizes: Winner of Quill Awards: General Fiction 2007 and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007 and James Tait Black Memorial Prize (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.