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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.
A short summary of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Road.
Sep 26, 2006 · Cormac McCarthy. 3.99. 932,341 ratings62,133 reviews. 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.
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. He has written a visually stunning...
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 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.
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.
Mar 28, 2007 · Use this guide to jump-start your journey on The Road, a tender, harrowing novel of unfailing hope amid epic devastation by acclaimed writer Cormac McCarthy.
About The Road. 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.
