The Road
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- ISBN13: 9780307476302
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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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 additional.
The Road is the very much moving tale of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the additional’s world entire,” are sustained by like. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: essential destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total hurt.Amazon.com Review
Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as “an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century,” Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and regularly brutal novels, including the bestselling No Country for Ancient Men, and The Road. Very much dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we’ve read this year, but in case you need a second (and practiced) opinion, we questioned Dennis Lehane, leader of equally rich, occasionally bleak and brutal novels, to read it and give us his take. Read his glowing review not more than. –Daphne Durham
Guest Reviewer: Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane, master of the hard-boiled thriller, generated a cult following with his series about private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, wowed readers with the intense and gut-wrenching Mystic River, blew fans all away with the mind-bending Shutter Island, and switches gears with Coronado, his new collection of stark fleeting tales (and one play).
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 oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it’s not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the confront. Stealing across this horrific (and that’s the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the like the father feels for his son, a like as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy’s previous work. McCarthy’s Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very small place for like. In fact that greatest like affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in The Crossing. But here the like of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has permanently written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, persons batteries are nearly out–the entire world is, reasonably factually, dying–so the final avowal of hope in the novel’s closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father’s (and McCarthy’s) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith. –Dennis Lehane
The Road is now a major motion picture based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, starring College Award-nominee Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Delight in these images from the film, and click the thumbnails to see larger images.
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There is no understanding this book lacking feeling the absentminded heartsickness of sheriff EdTom Bell pondering the new Evil and the gleeless pride of The Kid as he tells off The Judge. The Road is, I suspect, the unseen underbelly of the gnostic metaphysical trend-as Bruise and maybe V. Bell would place it-that whispers virtue unto the wilting ears of near thoughtless protagonists. Persons familiar with this theoretical line will read with a pounding heart and a faint reminder of the road that finished in a swamp in another novel; a novel too far to recall. Persons sympatheric to this line of interpretaion-persons willing to dispense with the “huge” descriptions and “the” symbols-may see the face of Chirgurh with his coin in hand, The Judge erasing cave paintings, and the bulging eye of a corpse emerging from the spetic Tennessee. But above all The Road contains no more than is already there. And so, despite the various glorifications cast its way by publishers and sycophants, it seems more like a punctuation mark than a piece of prose: lean, fit, forceful. Delight in with a heavy heart.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This book was OK, but it seemed like part of the tale was missing. I would have like to have known what was the background that made the world like this in the tale.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I am an avid reader of ALL genres of books. This book left me shaking my head…….from side to side, thinking to myself, okaaaay. I’ve read a few books in the past that left me doing the same thing.
I guess one will read into a work of fiction what they want to, just like composition. It affects all of us differently. This left me thinking…… what additional book could I have spent my money on?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book was very depressing. I am not sure why Simpson College(IA) forced all of us first years to read this. This book had virtually no action in it. It is basically they go down the road they stop somewhere. The boy is frightened. It would have been helpful if the leader came up with names and ages for the characters. The ending is very weird. This book made me very mad. Why would people eat babies anyway? Just don’t read this book, and i wouldn’t reccomend spending your money to go see the movie either.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is clearly the worst book I have ever read…even worse than A Painted House.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5