The Road
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4.3 • 201 Ratings
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Publisher Description
NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED FILM STARRING VIGGO MORTENSEN
"So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent" Daily Telegraph
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food - and each other.
PRAISE FOR THE ROAD
"A masterpiece that will soon be considered a classic" Herald
"McCarthy conjures from this pitiless flight the miracle of unswerving humanity. Gripping beyond belief" Chris Cleave, Sunday Telegraph
"One of the most shocking and harrowing but ultimately redemptive books I have read. It is an intensely intimate story. It is also a warning" Kirsty Wark, Observer Books of the Year
"You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerized. All the modern novel can do is done here" Alan Warner, Guardian
"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" Andrew O'Hagan
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Cormac McCarthy’s searing vision of a hellish postapocalyptic America won him the Pulitzer Prize in 2006, and this uncompromising novel has only grown in stature since. Told with the author’s signature starkness of prose, The Road follows an unnamed father and son trying to get south before a deadly winter sets in. Descriptions of the charred landscape come in dreamily vivid fragments that add up to a sustained, trance-like effect. Examining human endurance in the most extreme of conditions, McCarthy vigorously tests the limits of faith.
Customer Reviews
Hauntingly Beautiful
At first, McCarthy's writing style is slightly confusing. He doesn't use "" and he doesn't tell us who is speaking. But once we get over this, the story he tells is hauntingly beautiful. Brilliant descriptive writing painting the bleak picture of a father and son's struggle in a post-apocalyptic earth. Great movie as well with Viggo Mortenson and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Definitely worth reading/watching.
A story about gratitude
Some people see only the horror in this book but there is so much beauty, especially in the exquisitely crafted language. My absolute favourite book.
Oh my, I couldn’t put it down
Brilliantly written, heart rending