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The Road (Oprah's Book Club #57)

The Road (Oprah's Book Club #57)


by McCarthy, Cormac
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    Cormac McCarthy`s bleak vision of the American landscape has always had a cataclysmic undertone, so it comes as no surprise that THE ROAD is actually set in a post-apocalyptic world of ash and bitter ...
 
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Cormac McCarthy`s bleak vision of the American landscape has always had a cataclysmic undertone, so it comes as no surprise that THE ROAD is actually set in a post-apocalyptic world of ash and bitter cold where cannibalistic marauders roam the countryside. In this dire place, a man and his son travel towards the sea armed only with a revolver and two bullets. Their love for each other is fierce, but the son begins to realize that his father has, in his desperation, become as savage and brutal as the world around him. Cormac McCarthy writes with a searing white heat, his images and language strike deep in the reader, and his vision of humanity is inexorable and haunting.

Author:
McCarthy, Cormac
ISBN:
9780307265432
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
241
Publish Date:
09/26/2006
Publisher:
Alfred a Knopf Inc

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      A talented writer as always delivers! If you have read "All the Pretty Horses," or "No Country For Old Men," then "The Road" is a must.

      enedina from Colorado, Mar 9, 2008

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    • On the Road at the End of the World

      Cormac McCarthy is America's best living novelist, in my opinion. This new novel follows an unnamed father and his young son as they trek across a lifeless, post-apocalyptic America. Every town is a ghost town and every person they come across a threat. McCarthy shows us that even in a bleak and futureless world, life still has value. Human goodness counts for something. The relationship between the father and son is really authentic and touching. I love this novel and you will too.

      bukowski from Salt Lake City, UT, Oct 8, 2007

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    • Road to Redemption

      A bleak father-and-son journey along a claustrophobic road haunted by memories behind and unknowing ahead, undoing from the left and undoing from the right. Poisoned, traumatized, the man sleepless, hyper-vigilant, the boy exhausted, constantly begging affirmation. Consider the single-word question "okay?" that burns the conscience at every turn. A story of unbelievable willpower and redemption at the core of all human experience; a heartbreaking love story.

      eapoet from Amherst, MA, Aug 10, 2007

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    • Another McCarthy classic

      I am a huge fan of McCarthy and his new book did not disappoint. While the plot sounds like "Mad-Max" with its post-apocolyptic setting, it has an interesting take on the emotional aspect of survival. I found myself wondering if I would be able to survive in a world so full of despair and hopelessness...I finished the book in one day because I couldn't bear not knowing how it ended. Definitely worth reading!

      Anonymous from Avid reader in Texas, Nov 17, 2006

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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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