The Road

So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent * The Telegraph *[The Road,] heartbreaking and haunting, has an overbearing, almost suffocating atmosphere … you cannot forget you’ve read it * The Times *McCarthy’s novel was one of the triggers for my writing Room; I wanted to see what a mother-child modern myth would look like, because his father-child one was so powerful – Emma Donoghue, author of Room and Haven[T]he most important environmental book ever written – George Monbiot, author of Feral and RegenesisThe 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. – Andrew O’Hagan, author of Our Fathers and MayfliesYou will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerized. All the modern novel can do is done here – Alan Warner, author of Morvern CallarMcCarthy conjures from this pitiless flight the miracle of unswerving humanity. Gripping beyond belief – Chris Cleave * Sunday Telegraph *One of the most shocking and harrowing but ultimately redemptive books I have read. It is an intensely intimate story. It is also a warning – Kirsty Wark * The Observer Books of the Year *A masterpiece that will soon be considered a classic * Herald *

Cormac McCarthy is one of the most enigmatic and reclusive superstars of the modern literary world. Living and writing from El Paso, Texas, he has shunned all requests for interviews, appearances at bookshops or literary festivals. Nonetheless, he remains one of the most admired writers of the last fifty years. His eight novels have received extraordinary reviews, being hailed as masterpieces of American literature. He has won the American National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the first book of The Border Trilogy. Cormac McCarthy is the author of twelve novels and a play. All his novels are available in Picador editions. He died in June 2023.