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The Road (Oprah's Book Club #57) by Cormac McCarthy (Paperback)

The Road (Oprah's Book Club #57) by Cormac McCarthy (Paperback)


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    A scorching, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
 
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A scorching, 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. 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 wearing, a cart of scavenged food, and each other.


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Author:
McCarthy, Cormac
ISBN:
9780307387899
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Paperback
Publish Date:
03/28/2007
Publisher:
Vintage Books

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    • The Road

      Pulitzer prize winning tale of an extraordinary love between a father and his son trying to survive despite desperate conditions. It is a very heavy, heart-wrenching story which holds you until the very end.

      abeslady from Pittsburgh, PA, May 4, 2007

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    • This book sticks with you

      This was one of the most profound books I've ever read. It's written so simply, yet through that simple language the author manages to portray such complex internal experiences. Don't expect a happy little fairy tale story, this is a deep novel of realism.

      zdzislaw from Indian Mound,TN, Mar 2, 2010

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    • Briliant

      Cormac McCarthy is a brilliant writer. His sentences are short, concise and profound. The Road is a look at what would happen at the end of our world from Cormac McCarthy's perspective. It is dark and bleak with a flicker of light. The story follows the journey of a father and son and their struggle to survive. I was deeply moved by their bond and the hope and faith that they had in each other. I finished the book in 2 days- needless to say, I had a very hard time putting it down.

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    • Good Book

      Once I got passed the first few pages, it was a pretty good read.

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    • Not for the sensitive soul

      Well written, yes. Hard to put down, yes. One of the most depressing books I've ever read, unfortunately, also a yes. This post apocalyptic novel is almost brutal for those of us who really dive in and bond with the characters. While I can see the value of the writing and the story, I just can't bring myself to recommend this one. (Unless you have way too much joy in your life and want it taken down a notch.)

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    • The Road

      This is an excellent book!!! I read it in a couple of days and will read it again. I passed it on to my sister.

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    • Nothing happens

      I really wanted to like this book but it just depressed me. I enjoyed the literary style but didn't feel the story line had much substance. It may have just not been my type of book.

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    • The Road is an amazing book

      At once brutal and tender, despairing and hopeful, The Road is McCarthy¿s brave and unforgettable meditation on the thin line between humanity and chaos. I haven't read anything like it, and I will read it again and again. Truly a book that will stay with you forever.

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  • Starred ReviewViolence, in McCarthy's postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in the form of a "long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that leaves cities and forests burned, birds and fish dead and the earth shrouded in gray clouds of ash. In this landscape, an unnamed man and his young son journey down a road to get to the sea. (The man's wife, who gave birth to the boy after calamity struck, has killed herself.) They carry blankets and scavenged food in a shopping cart, and the man is armed with a revolver loaded with his last two bullets. Beyond the ever-present possibility of starvation lies the threat of roving bands of cannibalistic thugs. The man assures the boy that the two of them are "good guys," but from the way his father treats other stray survivors the boy sees that his father has turned into an amoral survivalist, tenuously attached to the morality of the past by his fierce love for his son. McCarthy establishes himself here as the closest thing in American literature to an Old Testament prophet, trolling the blackest registers of human emotion to create a haunting and grim novel about civilization's slow death after the power goes out. 250,000 announced first printing; BOMC main selection. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
 
 
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