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THE ROAD
By: Cormac McCarthy

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy?s masterpiece.

Knopf
October 2006
On Sale: September 26, 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0307265439
EAN: 9780307265432
Hardcover
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Fiction | Contemporary

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. They 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 wearting, 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.

Media Buzz

Morning Edition - April 17, 2007
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - April 16, 2007
Oprah - March 28, 2007
All Things Considered - November 7, 2006
Morning Edition - September 28, 2006