The Road

Synopsis

national Bestseller

pulitzer Prize Winner
national Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist

a new York Times Notable Book
one Of The Best Books Of The Year
the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Denver Post, the Kansas City Star, los Angeles Times, new York, people, rocky Mountain News, time, the Village Voice, the Washington Post

the 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. Their Destination Is The Coast, Although They Don't Know What, If Anything, Awaits Them There. They Have Nothing; Just A Pistol To Defend Themselves Against The Lawless Bands That Stalk The Road, The Clothes They Are Wearing, A Cart Of Scavenged Food—and Each Other.

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, Desperate Tenacity, And The Tenderness That Keeps Two People Alive In The Face Of Total Devastation.

bookforum

there Is An Urgency To Each Page, And A Raw Emotional Pull . . . Making [the Road] Easily One Of The Most Harrowing Books You'll Ever Encounter. . . . Once Opened, [it Is] Nearly Impossible To Put Down; It Is As If You Must Keep Reading In Order For The Characters To Stay Alive. . . . The Road Is A Deeply Imagined Work And Harrowing No Matter What Your Politics.