Synopsis
One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A post-apocalyptic classic set in a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The Road is a masterpiece of American fiction from Cormac McCarthy.
Winner of the Pulitzer...
Details
04 August 2022336 pages
9781035003792Imprint: Picador
Reviews
So good that it will devour you. It is incandescentTelegraph
[The Road,] heartbreaking and haunting, has an overbearing, almost suffocating atmosphere . . . you cannot forget you’ve read itThe Times
McCarthy’s novel was one of the triggers for my writing Room; I wanted to see what a mother-child modern myth would look like, because his father-child one was so powerfulEmma Donoghue, author of Room and Haven
The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.Andrew O’Hagan, author of Our Fathers and Mayflies
