The Road

Pulitzer Prize Winner • National Bestseller • A post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's struggle to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, chilling, and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger

A father and son walk alone across scorched America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape except the ash blowing in the wind. It's cold enough to crack rocks, and when the snow falls, it's gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, though they don't know what awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless gangs stalking the road, the clothes they wear, a wagon of scavenged food, and each other.

The Road is a deeply moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which father and son, “each other’s entire world,” are sustained by love. Impressive in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best of which we are capable: ultimate destruction, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

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