Description
The Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic and Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic by Cormac McCarthy.
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food – and each other.
‘So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent.’ – Daily Telegraph
Dinesh Singh Topwal (Verified Purchase)
Not a “nice” book. Dark yet enthralling. Set in an extinction situation, the reason for apocalypse is never shared. The relationship between father and son is profound and tripped back to survival, yet deeply loving. Cormac’s style of writing adds to the passage of each challenging day.
kishore ch (Verified Purchase)
Where to start?? This book is terrifying, haunting, beautiful, heartbreaking and just when it’s taken you as far as you think your heart can stand there are little signs of hope. I would give it 10 stars if I could I absolutely loved it. I can understand why some people struggled with it, it’s definitely a love it or hate it type of book. I am firmly in the love it camp!!!
Sandeep Sandy (Verified Purchase)
A compelling read – highly recommended to anyone, although if you are bothered by slightly gory things then you may wish to avoid. Especially recommended to anyone with an interest in ‘end of the world’ type fiction.
Uday Prasad (Verified Purchase)
An absolute raw and emotional thing of spectacular beauty! Portraying both the good of man and the worst of man, Mccarthy is not an author, but an artist.
Suman Kumar (Verified Purchase)
This to me was engrossing book that tells the story of a post apocalyptic world where there is no real hope of survival for any length of time. It should be depressing to think about only surviving from one day to the next with little or no future but it draws you in and gets you to want the boy and his father to survive and make to it somewhere with other people who still have a thread of humanity still in tacked. I will not spoil the end or indeed the rest of the plot suffice to say I ate this book up it was a great read and if the movie is half as good it will be a winner for me