The Road
The most tender novel ever written about the end of the world.
The Story
A father and his son walk south through the ash of a destroyed America. They have a cart, a pistol, and one another. Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel in 2007. 287 pages.
journey·5 Chapters
The Road
Dread
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Grey world, grey sky. Everything is ash and silence.
What a man will do. You understand love differently after this.
What waits on the road. You want to look away. You cannot.
He says they carry the fire. You start to believe it matters.
The end is coming. You are not ready. Neither are they.
"Carry the fire.
"Cormac McCarthy
McCarthy wrote The Road after visiting El Paso with his young son and imagining the city on fire. The image of a boy walking through ash stayed with him.
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007. Oprah chose it for her book club. The 2009 film starred Viggo Mortensen.