Though you may have heard of his last novel turned movie, No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy has written many other good books you might not know about. One of these I just read... & it is terrific.
The Road, written in 2006, earned him the Pulitzer Prize. The novel explores a post-apocalyptic American wasteland & two characters struggling to survive in the wake of unspoken destruction. McCarthy avoids the details of the disaster and lets the characters take center stage, where a father-son duo remain unnamed throughout the book. Dialogue between the two is as bleak as the landscape being described & only mutter a few phrases at a time. They must overcome the loss of sunlight, horrifc storms, lack of food & water & the terrible notion that there may be nothing left out there worth searching for.
You won't find any real plot twists here. Only the sobering vantage points of a father & son trying to make their way through a devatasted world.
Read it
4 comments:
Sounds good to me... Nicely written review brother.
What is this? Thursday book club? I dig on culture too. But we need you TO BUCK UP. Reserve that flight to FLL. The college spring break slutters aren't waiting..why the funk are you?
I agree with your brother -- nicely written.
Grace T
Bret you hot piece. so smart.
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