Annotation
A 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 Roadis 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.
Awards
2006 Library Journal Best Books of the Year
2007 Pulitzer Prize
2007 Quill Awards
2006 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
2006 New York Times Notable Books of the Year
Characters
| Name | Unnamed |
| Gender | Male |
| Traits | Widow |
| Father | |
| Genre | Fiction Domestic Dystopia Adventure --Survival Cinematization |
| Topics | Fathers and sons Hope Nuclear war Post-apocalyptic society Suicide Journeys Suicide Widowers Survival Survivalists Love |