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The Road (Paperback)
by Cormac McCarthy (Author)
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Mesmerising... The best novel I read last year was McCarthy's No County for Old Men. I shall be astonished if this year I read anything better than The Road. --Mail on Sunday

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'Stunning...This is a shocking and brilliant work, at once
terribly pertinent and impressively universal.'

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Haunting, Harrowing Masterpiece, 19 Nov 2007
A beautifully written story of a father and son seeking sanctuary in a post apocalyptic world. It's a truly gripping tale of a man and his boy coping with starvation and deprevation amidst devastation. Gloomy but with enough light to keep you going. This is one of the most moving books I've read in quite a long time. If you've read other Cormac McCarthy biooks and enjoyed them you won't be disappointed with this
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4.0 out of 5 stars You can taste the ash in your mouth, feel the cold in your bones..., 19 Oct 2007
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A compelling, almost mesmerising, read, this book has superb ambience. A father and son trek, more or less silently, across America, an America transformed into some post-apocalypse wasteland. There is menace all around, at least as the father perceives it - a sense of constant threat from the winter closing in, from their fellow survivors - that keeps the pair taut and constantly on the move. The all-pervasive ash and freezing, dirty fog (perhaps this is a nuclear winter ?) get under your skin as reader within a few pages, and stay there: I felt physically dirty and cold when I'd turned the last page. This is a vivid study of the strength - and perhaps the warpedness, given the plot twist in the final few pages - of familial bonds that endure when all else has failed. Riveting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A work of genius, 22 Jun 2007
I had been meaning to read this book for a while so was looking forward to it anyway but nothing could have prepared me for the sheer awful beauty of it. The writing is poetically sparse, with the focus always remaining on the relationship between father and son. The purity of their love stands in stark contrast to the brutality of the world in which they live and their journey is both heartbreaking and life affirming. I read this in one sitting and it will stay with me for a long time to come. Stands head and shoulders above anything else I have read in a long time.
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