The Road - Softcover

McCarthy, Cormac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330468464 ISBN 13: 9780330468466

Publisher: Picador, 2009

Synopsis

By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Cormac McCarthy's The Road is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast.

The film directed by John Hillcoat, features an all-star cast including Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall, and introduces major talent, Kodi Smit McPhee, with a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

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Review:

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. Author: Andrew O’Hagan

A work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away. Author: Tom Gatti Source: The Times

So good that it will devour you, in parts. It is incandescent. Author: Niall Griffiths Source: Daily Telegraph

You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerised. All the modern novel can do is done here. Author: Alan Warner Source: Guardian

From the Publisher:

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0330468464
• ISBN 13: 9780330468466
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320