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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: ... become a barren and desolute land where no-one can be trusted. The narrative comes primarily from the perspective of ‘the ... more

 ... father’ the main character along side his son, who is referred to simply as ‘the boy’ and who must be around ten. These two distinctly different characters are undertaking a journey along the road, across the mountains and to the coast. They don’t know what they will find there but they know they must keep moving. Winter is coming and they must find shelter and food. They have a gun with two bullets and a little tinned food, but their supplies are dwindling… Although the cause of the calamity is never specifically sta...more

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Format: paperback, Publisher: Pan Macmillan, ISBN: 0330447548
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Format: hardback, Publisher: Pan Macmillan, ISBN: 033044753X
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Crowned Review The Road - Cormac McCarthy: The Future is Most Definitely Not Bright. (857 words)
by nickyturnill - written on 09.08.07 (Very useful, 196 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 ...

 
 
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