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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009) (Vintage International) |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 1398
Publication Date: 2009-11-03
Release Date: 2009-11-03
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307476308
Type: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 304
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post
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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Review: 2010-03-11
Didn't want to read it - so glad I did.
I was dreading reading this book. My husband read it a couple of years ago and enjoyed it but, for some reason I had it in my head that it wasn't for me. He encouraged me to read it but I just put it off, I had no intention of reading this book. But, this April it is my book club's read so, I felt like I had to read it. Well, I loved it.
For me this book came down to the strength of love between father and son. I found the journey they went on rewarding to read and I found hope in the end. It truly is a beautiful, poetic, and moving book. I'm so happy I threw away my misconceptions and read this book.
Review: 2010-03-10
On The Road
A gritty and heartbreaking view of a father and son in post-apocalyptic America. The prose is stunningly beautiful, especially given the dark subject matter. Even with the bleakest of backdrops this story is really about unconditional love between a father and son.
Recommendation: There's a reason this novel won the Pulitzer prize, and it only takes a few days to read. The Road tells us that even when there is no hope, we've still got our humanity and love. I watched the movie immediately after I finished the book, and it's good too.
Review: 2010-03-08
powerful reading
The story is captivating and powerful. It's about father/son, survival, fate/god, and struggle to keep your morals. However, I have to say the final result of reading this book is to make me buy extra ammo.
Review: 2010-03-08
Did not live up to the hype
It is a rare feeling in a 'classic' book to find that the two hundredth page is almost identical to the first.
Perhaps the author's intention was to show the bleak repetition of a world shed of almost all delight. If so, then he succeeded.
'By day the banished sun circles the Earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.'
Beautiful, poetic, and yet... for me at least... so often uninteresting.
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