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The Road - Cormac McCarthy

 
Description: ISBN 0330447548 / Author: Cormac McCarthy / Genre: Fiction / A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ... more
The Road - Cormac McCarthy ... 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'

Newest Review: ... hostile world but wihtout giving too much away. The stroy is focused around "the boy" and "the man" (you ... more

 ... never hear their actual names, which i found very interesting and different). The story follows their travels across a post apocolyptic America, in which the land has become baron and hostile. The story describes their quest to heard South to a form of sanctuary, in which the weather is warmer and there is a possibility of more survivors. I enjoy the fact that you never find out why the world has affectivly ended (or whether it is just America that has been destroyed?) as it adds a bit of mistery to the book, and lets...more

burtybookworm
Crowned Review The Road - Cormac McCarthy: "By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving m ... (1028 words)
by - written on 26/08/09 (Very useful, 96 readings)
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Probably most famously known for writing "No Country For Old Men", Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is story focussing on the desperation and despair of an unnamed man and his son travelling across post-apocalyptic America. Trying to travel to the coast, the mans concerns are on what they will eat, where they will sleep and what other humans they will encounter on their way as most survivors in this new world have turned to eating their own for survival. This novel from the beginning represents a very bleak prospect, especially off the back of reading such an upbeat and heart warming book. Everything that "The Guernsey Literary and ...  Read the complete review

midpikyrozziy
Crowned Review The greatest novel of modern times? (1033 words)
by - written on 04/04/09 (Very useful, 365 readings)
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THE ROAD - CORMAC MCCARTHY Intro: I first came across this book when searching for 'No Country for Old Men' by the same author, but as the library were all out, I decided that, not having read any Cormac McCarthy before, I should give this a try. I didn't know anything about the book at all before I read it, but I'm very glad that I decided to read it now, and I'd recommend it to anyone.It was published in 2006 and has enjoyed a very positive set of feedback from critics, and has won a whole host of prizes, including the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial prize for fiction, and the much coveted Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007. These awards are thoroughly ...  Read the complete review

nickyturnill
Crowned Review The Road - Cormac McCarthy: The Future is Most Definitely Not Bright. (857 words)
by - written on 09/08/07 (Very useful, 235 readings)
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The Road’ an admittedly boringly titled book, written by Cormac McCarthy was published in 2006 and won the prestigious Columbia University Pulitzer prize this year. Cormac McCarthy, an American writer, born 1933, has written many other books including his first novel The Orchard Keeper, which was published by Random House in 1965, All the Pretty Horses (1992) and No Country for Old Men (2005). The Road is the first of his books I have read and I read it in conjunction with my recently joined book club. The book generated some interesting discussions and it was in fact only later that we realised it had won the Pulitzer Prize. ‘The Road’ is set in ...  Read the complete review

kittens09
Premium Review A terrifying look at a possible future (977 words)
by - written on 23/10/09 (Very useful, 73 readings)
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I was introduced to this book through I friend who I was on holiday with at the time. I had heard of Cormac McCarthy from his work on "No Country for Old Men", but I had not yet read anything of his. As my friend finished reading the book he sat there with tears streaming down his face. Seeing this I was obviously a bit apprehensive about what this book was about but the fact that it brought about a lot of emotion in my friend compelled me to pick it up. This novel has become somewhat of a modern classic in the US; it won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and has had much critical acclaim. The book has been recreated for the big screen and the film ...  Read the complete review

joncarey9
Premium Review The Road - Cormac McCarthy: The Road: "Are you carrying the fire?" (551 words)
by - written on 03/10/09 (Very useful, 108 readings)
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After seeing the trailer and hearing news of director John Hillcoat's upcoming film adaptation, The Road, I searched a little deeper and purchased author Cormac McCarthy's book of which it is based. I'm not a massive reader by any extent, so it was all news to me that The Road has been praised as a modern day classic by fans and critics alike. The only other time I have stumbled upon McCarthy's work is in the Coen Brothers adaptation of his book No Country for Old Men, an absolutely fantastic film, which now after finishing The Road I might go back and check out the original novel of. The plot of The Road is that sometime in the past, in an undisclosed year an ...  Read the complete review

 

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