Road

English

Series: Vintage International Ser.

Volume: No. 57

ISBN: 0307387895

EAN: 9780307387899

Category: Fiction / Literary/Fiction / Science Fiction / General/Fiction / Dystopian/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 03/28/2007

Synopsis: 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 PostThe searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthys 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 dont 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 others 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.

Awards: American Library Association Notable Books – null  Book Sense Book of the Year – null  Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null  New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null  Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year – null  Pulitzer Prize – null  Quill Awards – null 

Road

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.85 inches

Width: 5.15 inches

Length: 7.96 inches

Weight: 10.44 oz

Pages: 304