Search results
The Road. 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 almost all life. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer ...
Sep 26, 2006 · The Road is unsteady and repetitive--now aping Melville, now Hemingway--but it is less a seamless blend than a reanimated corpse: sewn together from dead parts into a lumbering, incongruous whole, then jolted to ignoble half-life by McCarthy’s grand reputation with Hollywood Filmmakers and incestuous award committees.
- (911K)
- Hardcover
- Cormac Mccarthy
Mar 28, 2006 · The Road is the most readable of [McCarthy's] works, and consistently brilliant in its imagining of the posthumous condition of nature and civilization." — The New York Times Book Review "One of McCarthy's best novels, probably his most moving and perhaps his most personal." — Los Angeles Times Book Review "Illuminated by extraordinary ...
- Vintage
- $12.08
Oct 21, 2021 · THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy | Review first published Oct. 8, 2006. 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 ...
A father and his son travel on foot to the southern coast, seeking a warmer climate in a post-apocalyptic world. The Road is a novel by Cormac McCarthy that explores the themes of survival, morality, and hope in a bleak landscape.
Mar 20, 2007 · 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 ...
Sep 26, 2006 · The Road. Hardcover – September 26, 2006. 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 goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San ...
