The Road

by McCarthy, Cormac
ISBN: 9780307476302
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  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: McCarthy, Cormac
  • ISBN: 9780307476302
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.94 x 0.89
  • Number Of Pages: 287
  • Publication Year: 2009

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  • Life is meaningless McCarthy style.

    Tera B. - 6 months ago

    The Road is one of the most depressing, stark and lonely books a person can read and it is absolutely amazing. McCarthy creates a world that has fallen off of its precipice. Nothing can grow anymore, the cities have emptied and the few humans left scramble for food, resorting to even eating each other. The story follows a boy and his father and their harrowing journey to stay alive. Stripped away from the normal world The Road explores the worth of a human life and the extremes humans go to preserve themselves. Backed by minimal and poignant pose McCarthy carves a dim future where all that matters page after page is the hope of one little boy.

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  • The Road is long and tough!

    Zakarriah R. - 8 months ago

    It is said that Cormac McCarthy wrote this while staying the night in a hotel in El Paso, Texas while his son was sleeping. It is a fast but intense story of a father and son moving across the wasteland of America after the world has ended. McCarthy is very poetic in his writing. He writes elegant lines that build the world he lays out in the book. He has a way of writing that makes you feel you are on the journey and it is happening as you read. It has funny moments and terribly sad moments. This book gets better and better each time I read it!

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  • A heartbreaking odyssey told in shades of grey

    Sara E. - 1 year 8 months ago

    Since its initial publication in 2006, pop culture has been inundated with post-apocalyptic tales. Still, nothing compares to The Road. An intimate, tender story of a father and his son, alone but for the other and alive by the love they share. Their humanity is a miracle in McCarthys landscape of violence and destruction. His eerie, savage vision of the world after devastation is rendered with a complete lack of color and life, bleakly luminous with the beauty of its language. The enduring goodness of man and child glows amidst the horror of civilizations end. Read this if you love Cormac McCarthy's other books. Read this if you love apocalypse films. Read this if you're a sucker for gorgeous language. Read this if you've never read it. It will stay with you.

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  • Welcome to Depressing Land

    Tera B. - 2 years ago

    The world is over. No more food can grow, animals have died out, and the last few humans are scrambling for anything to keep them alive. The Road is utterly soul-crushing, haunting, and something everyone should read. Cormac McCarthy enfolds the reader into a stark, post-apocalyptic world that follows the journey of a father and son as they struggle to survive. Simple and poignant prose carries the weight of the story as the duo move in the ashen remnants of a lost Earth. The Road is a literary novel at its core wearing a sci-fi cover; it explores what it means to be human when there is nothing else in existence. A must read for any post-apocalyptic enthusiast or McCarthy obsessed reader.

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  • A Rich, Dark and Poetic Classic

    Ryan B. - 3 years 1 month ago

    In the near post-apocalyptic future where food is scarce and cannibalism is rampant, a man and his boy set out upon the road. The Road is set on the intercrossing highways of the continental United States, but the road is also a metaphor for so much more. McCarthy's rich, dark and poetic narrative keeps the reader enthralled from beginning to end. The Road is a tale of survival against the elements and the perseverance of hope in the human heart.

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