The RoadNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). 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. |
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User Review - PaulaGalvan - LibraryThingThe Road is a horrific glimpse into a post-apocalyptic future that could be ours someday. It's a world populated by murderers, cannibals, and the insane; all left to fend for their existence on barren ... Read full review
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User Review - RobertOK - LibraryThingA bleak, unsparing vision of a father and son trying to survive in a cold, empty, ashen Earth after an unnamed global catastrophe. There is absolutely nothing left alive but a few scattered humans ... Read full review
Contents
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Section 2 | 11 |
Section 3 | 13 |
Section 4 | 15 |
Section 5 | 19 |
Section 6 | 21 |
Section 7 | 25 |
Section 8 | 32 |
Section 18 | 119 |
Section 19 | 121 |
Section 20 | 125 |
Section 21 | 129 |
Section 22 | 148 |
Section 23 | 151 |
Section 24 | 155 |
Section 25 | 181 |
Section 9 | 41 |
Section 10 | 51 |
Section 11 | 57 |
Section 12 | 81 |
Section 13 | 89 |
Section 14 | 91 |
Section 15 | 95 |
Section 16 | 101 |
Section 17 | 111 |
Section 26 | 191 |
Section 27 | 195 |
Section 28 | 199 |
Section 29 | 211 |
Section 30 | 215 |
Section 31 | 221 |
Section 32 | 231 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Road Vintage International |
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| Edition | unabridged, reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0307267458, 9780307267450 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Coming of Age Fiction / Literary Fiction / Sagas |
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