The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Paperback, Published in 2009
256 pages
Picador
Good condition

The late-great Cormac McCarthy’s dystopian masterpiece. A father and his son venture alone through America. A country burnt to a ravaged landscape of ash. It is cold enough to shatter stones, and when snow falls it is a desolate gray. Their heading is the coastline, a hopeful but ultimately unknown destination. With only a single pistol to defend themselves against the lawless gangs along the road, the clothes falling off them, a rusty cart of scavenged food and each other. Cormac forms a vision, an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best of humanity: destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in a world of devastation.