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.
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