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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)

The Road (Oprah's Book Club)Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage Books
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Edition: First
Pages: 287
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ISBN: 0307387895
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: March 28, 2007
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A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthys masterpiece. 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 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 foodand 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 others 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.

Amazon.com Review
Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century," Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including the bestselling No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we've read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, occasionally bleak and brutal novels, to read it and give us his take. Read his glowing review below. --Daphne Durham

Guest Reviewer: Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane, master of the hard-boiled thriller, generated a cult following with his series about private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, wowed readers with the intense and gut-wrenching Mystic River, blew fans all away with the mind-bending Shutter Island, and switches gears with Coronado, his new collection of gritty short stories (and one play).

Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it's not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and that's the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy's previous work. McCarthy's Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in The Crossing. But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel's closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father's (and McCarthy's) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith. --Dennis Lehane




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4 out of 5 stars A road to read and travel   February 8, 2010
S. Deeth (OR, USA)
The Road won a Pulitzer Prize, so I knew it had to have something special about it. Also it's being made into a film, which is probably not the best advert. It has an intriguing cover though, with man and boy in a gray world in the rain, so, living in rainy Oregon as I do, I decided to give it a try and was immediately hooked: From the first bleak vista, a nameless man reaching out to check the breathing of a nameless child; through miniature scenes, each carefully crafted, no excess words to describe a dying world; through steps and details and how will you open a jar when the lid's stuck and there's no tools left in the strangers' house to grip it...; through conversations with no punctuation because the words themselves punctuate the silence; through sickness and knowing what's coming and not wanting to know--and through knowing what's gone but not wanting that either; through to the point where I know the book's going to end but I hope maybe it won't; to final, lonely, impossible satisfaction.

A few weeks ago a jar of peaches leaked in my kitchen cupboard. Brown sticky fluid dripped down the inside of the door into a puddle on the floor. The tin itself looked rusty, slightly blown. Father and son might have found it there and discarded it rightly as unsafe. McCarthy's book makes me see it again in my mind, and wonder how the rest of my stocks will fare when the world ends.

The Road is a truly beautiful, masterful book, scarily real, emotionally draining, absorbing and haunting and sad. It deserves its prize. It foreshadows everyman's last hope. And I'm glad to have finally joined the ranks of those who have read and enjoyed it.



4 out of 5 stars Haunting and Beautiful   February 8, 2010
R. Christensen
Before reading "The Road", I anticipated hating it. I had heard the reviews: Bleak, depressing, literary (the type of book I usually have to force myself to finish and regret it in the end). However, after the first few pages, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself completely and totally immersed in this book. Only the bleak overall tone keeps me from rating five stars.

I'll leave out my summary, since there are plenty of those out there. Suffice it to say, "The Road" is a post-apocalyptic tale of a father and son's journey in search of survival and hope--and so much more.

Let me first say that Cormac McCarthy is well-deserving of his reputation as "literary genius". I was aware of the beauty of some of the passages and prose, but couldn't slow down long enough to really absorb and take it the depth (perhaps I will go back and reread it). I could not put this book down, could not stop turning the pages, even though very little happens in the way of plot or action. I found myself so invested in the characters and their survival that I simply had to keep reading. Part of me longed for them to find hope and survival, part of me desired for them to be released from their pain and suffering. Either way, I was compelled to follow them down the road.
A must-read.





4 out of 5 stars one of the best so far   February 8, 2010
massalo (Luanda, Angola)
in this genre (post apocalipse). The end is just beautiful. I'd recommend it to any one who has the heart and stomach for a sometimes very dark book.


5 out of 5 stars Simple, Direct and Horrifying   February 7, 2010
A. L. Cochran (North Carolina)
Mr. McCarthy's novel most certainly deserves the Pulitzer it was awarded. The author takes a popular topic, a humanity-shattering apocalypse and pares it down to its most terrifying conclusions. The prose is direct and sparse, adroitly mixing stream of consciousness and character dialogue. The reader is hopelessly pulled into the surreal and threatening world the characters inhabit. The only shred of humanity the main characters have to cling to is their love for each other. The point to the story is not to examine in detail how an apocalyptic event may come to be. It is to explore how we as a human race, in an apocalyptic aftermath, may well lose almost all that defines us.


4 out of 5 stars Words do this book injustice   February 7, 2010
Eustacia Vye (Boston, MA)
This is a hard book to review as the words to describe it escape me. The Road is very well written and the story will last with you for a long time. The actually content of the story was horrifying and difficult to read at times. This book grabbed me on the first page and didn't let go till the last.

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