The Road [Paperback]

`It's surprising for someone who's a self-described optimist to love this apocalyptic road story so much. But McCarthy captures the step-in-front-of-a-train, protect-at-all-costs mindset of a father and transfers it to the starkest possible context'
--The Week

`The world has been burned to death. A father and son walk towards their unknown destiny. It takes a superb writer to turn such a painful story into a novel that is so compelling.' --Michael Dobbs, The List

'Both terrifying and beautiful, it is about...the best and worst
of humankind...[it's] impossible to recommend it too highly.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

`An epic prose poem...builds to such a pitch of mournful
incantation hat something like real grief pours out' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

There's always a kind of ecstasy in reading McCarthy...it's so
good that it will devour you...It is incandescent. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

This novel is about love...a beautiful and haunting work...[a]
strange and compelling work, more prose poem than novel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away.
It will knock the breath from your lungs. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Road inspires. We are watching a late flowering of a great
American novelist. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The sense of desperation, fear and loneliness is superbly evoked.
The book is unremittingly bleak, but it's mesmerising.
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'Brilliant...the prose is of such beauty...An extraordinary tale
of humanity in ruins - one we should all read'
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'Utterly convincing and pysically chilling... All the modern novel
can do is done here.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road hit the big screen in January 2010.

By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. It has been hailed as 'the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature . . . An absolutely wonderful book that people will be reading for generations' Andrew O’Hagan Harvey Weinstein's film was released in the UK on 8 January 2010 with an all-star cast including Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall, and introducing major new young talent, Kodi Smit McPhee, with a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. ‘A work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away’ Tom Gatti, The Times ‘So good that it will devour you, in parts. It is incandescent’ Niall Griffiths, Daily Telegraph ‘You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerised. All the modern novel can do is done here’ Alan Warner, Guardian

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
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Cormac McCarthy is the author of nine previous novels, and among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.