Editors Note: picture is Father and Son...The Front Cover.
title: The Road
author: Cormac McCarthy
awards: National Bestseller, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
visuals: all black with "The Road" in big white text.
I believe the book is going to be about a journey were someone finds their place in the world
Questions: When was it written? where was Cormac McCarthy in his life while writing this
The Back Cover.
synopsis: 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. The have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the cloths they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food- and each other.
Reviews: most of them say the same kind of thing here's one that includes what most say. " The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's Masterpiece."
hints: I believe from what I've read its kind of like the Road Warrior Father and son edition, "just walk away...Son"
In The Book.
Copyright: 2006
Dedications: to John Francis McCarthy
no table of contents or alternative titles
Taste of Style: McCarthy's writing style is very descriptive and "slow" but not in a bad way. His writing has a very natural pace, a real thinking pace. Other books have no sense of pacing and are unnaturally fast.
Overall Impression: I've grown excited to read this book. I really enjoyed Road Warrior and I hope this will live up to all the precious Steam Punk Glory associated with Postapocalyptic times. I want to know: How did the Earth fall into this state? How did the father and son end up where they are? How long after the incident the destroyed the earth is it?
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