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Terfex.com - The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition)
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307472120
ISBN: 0307472124
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2008-11-18
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 2008-11-18
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Reviews:
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post
The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Summary: Morbid and depressing
Comment: Endearing? Hopeful? This is what people got out of the book? Wow, it sucked the life out of me and just about ruined my day. It's written well and flows smooth and fast. But, it's about the most heartbreaking book I've ever read. Reminds me of Schindlers list w/o the humanity. If you feel like you're just too happy, then read this, it will surely take all the joy away.
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Summary: Literary Affectation or Simple Laziness?
Comment: Not using quotation marks to denote dialog is either a literary affectation or simple laziness.
Mr. Mac should grow up and write like an adult already.
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Summary: Master of deception
Comment: All along the book, you're waiting for something to happen. Suspens is at its climax all the time but in the end...well nothing. This couple just go from luck to luck, they should probably have played loto.
All right, the bonds between a father and his child are very well described but apart from that, I found the book pretty empty. The reflexion the father has on his life, on what happens is not even that deep after all and they just are lucky on their trip, finding food just when they needed it the most. ô fortunate!
Well in a word, the book could have been great and has some sparks of greatness but it is definitely missing a little something.
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Summary: Sigh...this is a special novel.
Comment: A novel of loving and horrible content...just read it. I think the only other experience of similar feelings was while at Dachau. You will be bound to appreciate your children and life so much more....
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Summary: Powerful emotionally draining read
Comment: Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a powerful important book that leaves the reader drained emotionally. Set in a post apocalyptic future, the book makes the reader answer his or her own questions about how they would handle a survival situation. From ethics to religion to starvation to horror, what would you do? How would you handle yourself and your surroundings?
More important is the bond between father and son which is tested and retested throughout the story. The innocence of the boy eventually wins out in the end, if there truly is a winner.
A page turner to the end, it strips away the layers as you read and reveals you. An instant classic.
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