The road

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

The road

Author:

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023.

ISBN:

9781585478934

Edition:

Center Point large print ed.

Publication Information:

Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2007.

Physical Description:

254 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.

Summary:

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.

Subject(s):

Fathers and sons -- Fiction.

Voyages and travels -- Fiction.

Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction.

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At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, "The Road" is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the sometimes terrifying power of filial love.

Author Notes

Cormac McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. He attended the University of Tennessee, but interrupted his studies for four years to join the U.S. Air Force. He died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., on June 13, 2023. He was 89.

His first novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published in 1965. His other works include Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, and Blood Meridian. All the Pretty Horses, the first part of the Border Trilogy, which also includes The Crossing and Cities of the Plains, won the National Book Award in 1992. His novel No Country for Old Men was adapted into a film in 2007. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road. He has also written plays and screenplays.

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