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List Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307472120
ISBN: 0307472124
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2008-11-18
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 2008-11-18
Studio: Vintage
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Summary: Sigh...this is a special novel.
Comment: A novel of loving and horrible content...just read it. I think the only other experience of similar feelings was while at Dachau. You will be bound to appreciate your children and life so much more....
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Summary: Powerful emotionally draining read
Comment: Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a powerful important book that leaves the reader drained emotionally. Set in a post apocalyptic future, the book makes the reader answer his or her own questions about how they would handle a survival situation. From ethics to religion to starvation to horror, what would you do? How would you handle yourself and your surroundings?
More important is the bond between father and son which is tested and retested throughout the story. The innocence of the boy eventually wins out in the end, if there truly is a winner.
A page turner to the end, it strips away the layers as you read and reveals you. An instant classic.
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Summary: A very moving book
Comment: An outstanding depiction of a frighteningly possible post-apocalyptic world. It is a very touching story of human love, the will to survive, and the struggle of goodness against human depravity. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A dark world
Comment: The Road is a story of a man and his boy making their way across the ruins of America. There has been a catastrophe of incredible proportions. So much of life has been killed that bodies do not even decompose. The boy, whose name and age is unknown, sees things every day that would cause us to soil in our pants. That is his world, he has known no other. Papa, who's name and age is also unknown, does his best to take care of his son and to shield him from the horrors of this new world. Danger lurks around every corner and contact with other human beings will likely be unpleasant. Despite a world of total bleakness and some really close calls, they stumble onto one good fortune after another. Papa and his son are so gripped with fear, that they will not stay anywhere no matter how good they can have it. They willingly walk away from some good finds in this world of death and starvation. The boy wants to help people, but papa is afraid of others and with good reason. A large number of the survivors making their way through the world have turned to slavery and cannibalism. Fortunately, papa and his son aren't the only "good guys" left.
This book is dark and is a walk through a world I hope will never be, but I couldn't put it down. I would highly recommend it to any fan of the genre.
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Summary: Haunting; Heartbreaking
Comment: What to say about a novel which you know from the first several pages is incapable of producing a happy ending? Page after page of hopeless misery, in which mere survival is at stake in every minute of every day. A situation so dire, that a father takes pains to save his last remaining bullet in the event that he may be forced to mercy kill his own son.
A man and his minor son struggle in the aftermath of apocalyptic nuclear war, the world thrown into a nuclear winter, in which food, shelter, clothing and fuel have been virtually depleted. The few remaining survivors relegated to cannibalism and unspeakable savagery in their efforts to survive.
Against this backdrop, "the man" and "the boy" undertake a journey over the mountains and across the plains in an effort to reach the ocean. Throughout the journey and the travails encountered by the pair, the boy reveals himself to be a special individual, whose "humanity" and kindness are in stark contrast to the world around him.
Parents with children will be especially moved by the story, which bears a strong resemblance to Elie Wiesel's masterpiece "Night", with the striking difference being that the circumstances faced by the pair in this novel are appreciably more difficult and hopeless than those faced by Wiesel's father and son duo.
It is hard to describe the bleak and utter devastation painted by McCarthy in this Pulitzer Prize winning novel which can easily be read in 3-4 hours in one sitting. Expect to do so, because once you've begun, you will likely not want to put it down. It's like a multi-fatality pile up on the freeway. It is horrifying, but you cannot look away.
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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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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