The Road

NATIONAL BESTSELLERPULITZER PRIZE WINNER National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe The Christian Science Monitor The Denver Post The Kansas City Star Los Angeles Times New York People Rocky Mountain News Time The Village Voice The Washington PostThe searing postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthys masterpieceA father and his son walk alone through burned America Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind It is cold enough to crack stones and when the snow falls it is gray The sky is dark Their destination is the coast although they dont 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 foodmdashand each otherThe Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains but in which the father and his son xeach the others world entirex 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 devastationFrom the Trade Paperback edition.