The Connell Short Guide to Cormac McCarthy's The Road - Softcover

David Isaacs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907776990 ISBN 13: 9781907776991

Publisher: Connell Guides, 2017

Synopsis

Few, if any, modern novels have inspired as large a volume of critical writing as Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It is a novel about a man and a boy trudging through a wasteland after the fall of civilisation. But McCarthy's extraordinary achievement is to have created out of the bleakness and horror of his subject matter what Stephen Fry calls 'a novel of incomparable beauty'. 'The Road,' says the critic John Cant, 'expresses the paradox that lies at the heart of all serious pessimistic literature: its literary passion defies the very emptiness that it proclaims.'

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About the Author

David Isaacs studied English at Cambridge. Subsequently, he has worked as an editor both at Short Books and at Connell Guides. He has written five of our Short Guides - to Michael Frayn's Spies, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and forthcoming guide to John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman. He is currently doing a PhD at UCL on self-doubt and provisionality in late 20th century / early 21st century literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Connell Guides
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907776990
• ISBN 13: 9781907776991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52
• Editor: Jolyon Connell