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The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and nearly all life.
When the son sees a young boy—his mirror image—he wants to take the young boy with them. The son comes of age on the road, forming his own conscience apart from his father’s choices. Nothing defaces the empathy and goodwill that he wears for the world to see.
Sep 26, 2006 · A 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.
Oct 21, 2021 · Cormac McCarthy’s subject in his new novel is as big as it gets: the end of the civilized world, the dying of life on the planet and the spectacle of it all.
The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, was published in 2006. The story chronicles a father and son traveling the broken roadways of a post-apocalyptic world.
Mar 28, 2006 · Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds ...
The protagonists, a man and a boy, his young son, are never given names. The plot begins as they are traveling south down the road towards the coast, somewhere in the Southeastern United States. They plod along in the darkness with a shopping cart, two knapsacks, and a pistol.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of...
Mar 7, 2019 · The Road. Cormac McCarthy. Pan Macmillan, Mar 7, 2019 - Fiction - 320 pages. The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a...
The Road is a novel of hopelessness and despair, with some dim hope keeping the main characters, a man and his son, alive. Mostly, the characters live dreadfully. They sleep cold under a tarp, they hide from cannibals, they starve for days on end—and yet they keep going.
