The Road by Cormac McCarthy is in paperback at 12.50 euros.
This is a searing, post-apocalyptic novel that has established itself as a modern masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America heading through the ravaged landscape towards the coast.
A profoundly moving story of their journey, The Road boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains but in which two people, 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.
You will read it absolutely convinced, thrilled and mesmerised. “All the modern novel can do is done here,” said Alan Warner of The Guardian newspaper. Cormac McCarthy is the author of nine novels and among his honours is the National Book Award.
