Gripping beyond belief.Ĭhris Cleave, Sunday Telegraph One of the most shocking and harrowing but ultimately redemptive books I have read. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.Īndrew O’Hagan McCarthy conjures from this pitiless flight the miracle of unswerving humanity. The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. In this unflinching study of the best and worst of humankind, Cormac McCarthy boldly divines a future without hope, but one in which, miraculously, this young family finds tenderness.Īn exemplar of post-apocalyptic writing, The Road is a true modern classic, a masterful, moving and increasingly prescient novel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Road is an incandescent novel, the story of a remarkable and profoundly moving journey. It’s very sparse and elegiac, just with those two characters.
There’s a man and his son traveling on a road to try to get to where it’s rumored that sprouts of civilization are starting to grow again. Humanity has been wiped out, for the most part. Attempting to survive in this brave new world, the young boy and his protector have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves. The Road is a very spare novel by Cormac McCarthy.
A film version of Cormac McCarthy ‘s Blood. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside, lying in wait. One of the most beloved novels from the author behind The Road and No Country For Old Men is finally getting its own screen adaptation.
They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville.
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