The searing, post-apocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac
McCarthy's masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in
the ravaged, nuclear landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough
to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is grey. 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
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.
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Originally Posted by Virgil
I may yield and go to Amazon... grr. Hope it comes in soon!
