Book description
A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through
the 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' Alan
Warner, Guardian
Cormac McCarthy is the author of nine previous novels, and among his
honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics
Circle Award.
