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The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Paperback, 2007)
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A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This is the profoundly moving story of their journey. The Road boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which two people, `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. `The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature . . . An absolutely wonderful book that people will be reading for generations' Andrew O'Hagan `A work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away' Tom Gatti, The Times `So good that it will devour you, in parts. It is incandescent' Niall Griffiths, Daily Telegraph `You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerised. All the modern novel can do is done here' Alan Warner, GuardianProduct Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139780330447546
eBay Product ID (ePID)89709012
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Road
AuthorCormac McCarthy
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2007
Number of Pages320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width130mm
Item Weight263g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorCormac Mccarthy
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 05 Mar, 2022Most favourable review
A must read of apocalypse interest
Like most folk I see the movie of The Road first and lived it, which lead me to the book. The book of The Road did not disappoint, it has proven to be just as interesting and gripping. And every bit as disturbing at times. I genuinely found it hard to put down, a must for any fan of the film.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 25 Jul, 2017Most critical review
Not my taste (slight spoilers)
Okay, it's a book about the survivors of some kind of global apocalypse. I don't object to that - I've enjoyed other books of similar type. But this one doesn't seem plausible to me. I cannot think of any kind of disaster - natural or man-made - which would result in the total destruction of life, and yet leave some human survivors. And apparently the author couldn't think of one, either, for we are never told what the disaster was. This strikes me as lazy or sloppy, only telling us half the story. Some of the events, intended to demonstrate the horror of the situation, struck me as so implausible that I couldn't believe them and they had no emotional impact. A minor but irritating niggle is the author's not using quotation marks for dialogue, making some passages difficult to read. It seems to me a stupid affectation. Maybe you have to indulge in affectations if you want to win literary prizes. Me, I prefer authors who write with clarity. McCarthy doesn't.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 02 Jun, 2021
The Road
Watched the film. Read the book. Well worth adding to your reading list..Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 16 Feb, 2022
The road
Grate read Definitely one to put in the book case and read againVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 04 Mar, 2022
Good book.
A truly terrifying read!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Apr, 2018
Good book
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 28 Mar, 2021
Lovely book !
Came quickly! Lovely price! Thank you!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 28 Apr, 2024
Great book for the price
Great book for the priceVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 17 May, 2023
Liked the film
Was a present for somebody elseVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 08 Apr, 2018
good
greatVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
