The Road
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4.2 • 562 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. 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.
Customer Reviews
Bleak but Interesting Book
The way that the book is written is like very few novels by way of the writing style alone. That said, it is terribly bleak and depressing
Something is missing…
The Narrator and Author do not capture the reader. The connection between the father and the boy is cold and there is no life to their relationship. In the beginning, this book reads like a manual. Boring.
Incredible.
I’m not book critic and I’m not too in depth on the words needed to describe how it is. But it hit me in ways I never expected. I loved it.