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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780739482643
Edition: First Paperback Edition
ISBN: 0307387895
Label: Vintage Books
Manufacturer: Vintage Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 287
Publication Date: March 28, 2007
Publisher: Vintage Books
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Studio: Vintage Books
Features:- ISBN13: 9780307387899
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century," Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including the bestselling No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we've read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, occasionally bleak and brutal novels, to read it and give us his take. Read his glowing review below. --Daphne Durham
Guest Reviewer: Dennis Lehane
 Dennis Lehane, master of the hard-boiled thriller, generated a cult following with his series about private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, wowed readers with the intense and gut-wrenching Mystic River, blew fans all away with the mind-bending Shutter Island, and switches gears with Coronado, his new collection of gritty short stories (and one play).
Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it's not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and that's the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy's previous work. McCarthy's Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in The Crossing. But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel's closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father's (and McCarthy's) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith. --Dennis Lehane
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I read this book over a year ago and I'm still thinking about it. Moved me deeply
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I could not put this book down. I drew me in like no other book ever has. The ability of McCarthy to capture beauty in the midst of a crushing reality gives hope to the innate ability of mankind to overcome his base and savage instincts.
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We human animals are so homocentric. We think the universe revolves around us and that without us, God would weep. What a foolish notion. God might simply create a better version (the trout dreaming in their dark pools). And, "Goodness will find him" yes, the Goodness of a painless, quick death. I think THAT is what the book is all about. Hope? not for the human species.
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I was dreading reading this book. My husband read it a couple of years ago and enjoyed it but, for some reason I had it in my head that it wasn't for me. He encouraged me to read it but I just put it off, I had no intention of reading this book. But, this April it is my book club's read so, I felt like I had to read it. Well, I loved it.
For me this book came down to the strength of love between father and son. I found the journey they went on rewarding to read and I found hope ... Read More
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A gritty and heartbreaking view of a father and son in post-apocalyptic America. The prose is stunningly beautiful, especially given the dark subject matter. Even with the bleakest of backdrops this story is really about unconditional love between a father and son.
Recommendation: There's a reason this novel won the Pulitzer prize, and it only takes a few days to read. The Road tells us that even when there is no hope, we've still got our humanity and love. I watched the movie immediately ... Read More
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