The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

Release Date: 6th Oct 2007
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 978 0 3304 4754 6
RRP: £7.99

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This will leave its impression on you long after you've finished reading...

A man and a boy area headed south, all they have to guide them is the man's gut instincts and a sodden arrangement of papers that were once a map - a map that no longer resembles the world that they live in. With devastation and death everywhere, the man struggles to find sufficient food and means by which to live whilst they make their journey. The boy's mother is long gone. Given up on hope, of the point of survival in a world derelict of life, sound or beauty - in its place a bone-chilling cold, snow and ash that falls perpetually carpeting the environs in a grey shroud.

We don't know the cause of the world's undoing; all we know is the terror it has left behind. With marauding men searching out lone survivors in order to enslave, kill or eat them; it is a desolate and dangerous place.

You will have to acclimatise to McCarthy's unusual and unorthodox dialogue style and you will have to allow yourself plenty of breaks to free your mind from the absorbing monotony of the pairs endless journey to nowhere and the tedium of the nothingness they encounter along the way. Like the solemn march of a funeral parade - sombre, bleak, unforgiving and incredibly powerful - The Road will take you to your darkest place and leave you there abandoned, bereft of all hope with a gnawing pit in your stomach that realises that McCarthy has uncovered your worst fears and nightmares.

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