The Road

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive that "only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle).

One of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

A 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 don't 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 food--and each other.

The 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, "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.

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/26/2006
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.02w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780307265432

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 114669 / Road


Award: 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Fiction
Award: 2007 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction
Award: 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Honor Book - Adult Fiction
Award: 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner - Fiction
Award: 2007 Quill Awards Winner - General Fiction