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Annotation Tells the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. Publisher Description By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. It has been hailed as 'the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature ...An absolutely wonderful book that people will be reading for generations' - Andrew O'Hagan. Harvey Weinstein's film is to be released in the UK on 8 January 2010 with an all-star cast including Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall, and introducing major new young talent, Kodi Smit McPhee, with a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. 'A work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away' - Tom Gatti, "The Times". 'So good that it will devour you, in parts. It is incandescent' - Niall Griffiths, "Daily Telegraph". 'You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerised. All the modern novel can do is done here' - Alan Warner, "Guardian". The Nile Staff Review Set in a post apocalyptic world, The Road is the story of a father and son walking along a vacant American highway towards the sea, warmer weather and more survivors of the doomsday cataclysm. Carrying only what will fit on their backs and in their battered supermarket trolley, they face numerous dangers along the way including cannibalistic bandits and the ever present threat of starvation. Unremittingly bleak yet with a fragile sense of hope, this novel has stayed in my thoughts long after I finished it. Kelly@ The Nile Read the rest of Kelly 's reviews here. Author Biography Cormac McCarthy is the author of nine previous novels, and among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. |
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