The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
A 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.
Customer Review: Masterpiece
The Road is simply one of the best stories I've ever read. And, I have hundreds in my collection. McCarthy deserves the recent accolades and honors. This is a fine piece of fiction, in every way - worthy of the 2006 Pulitzer.
In general, The Road is a story of a father's love that grabs you by the heart - via a pair of filthy, desperate, sweet hands - and squeezes until the very end and then clenches one last time for good measure. It's an emotive journey of desperation across a cruel and unforgiving landscape that is vaguely familiar, yet as barren as the surface of the moon.
It's a worn out advertising cliche to say it, but: If you only read one book this year, let it be The Road.
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