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The Road

The Road

by Cormac Mc Carthy (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. It has been hailed as '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 Harvey Weinstein's film was released in the UK on 8 January 2010 with an all-star cast including Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall, and introducing major new young talent, Kodi Smit McPhee, with a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. '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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: Reprints
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 14 Dec 2009
ISBN 10: 0330468464
ISBN 13: 9780330468466
Book Overview: Cormac McCarthy's The Road hit the big screen in January 2010.

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
Cormac McCarthy is the author of many highly acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, All The Pretty Horses and No Country For Old Men. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road.