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The film adaptation of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel comes out next week - and I must see - so I picked this guy up again to refresh my memory.

If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend you do. As one of my friends describes it: this book will eat your soul... you know, in the way a great postapocalyptic tale should :)

Description: A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s 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 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.


View the trailer here. SO good.

5 comments:

November 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM Annemarie said...

Thanks for the recommendation! I've been looking for some new books to read for the winter so this sounds perfect! Have a good day love XOXO

November 19, 2009 at 2:17 PM Kerri Lynne said...

Looks like a great read, definitely going to check it out. With the semester ending next month, I've been on the hunt for some good books to fill those cold winter days with! :)

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November 20, 2009 at 10:48 AM Emma Skye said...

Sounds like an awesome book. I am going to add it to my list of things to read. Really cool blog by the way x

November 24, 2009 at 9:18 AM Jennie said...

This has to be one of my all time favorite books! I am unbelievably excited about the movie! Thanks for the reminder!

Great blog by the way! :)