The road
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2006
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A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged, nuclear landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones. 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' boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son 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: desperate tenacity, ultimate destructiveness, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
Main title:
The road / Cormac McCarthy.
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Imprint:
London : Picador, 2006.
Collation:
241 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780330447553 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
127818