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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post- apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive that “only adds to McCarthy’s stature as a living master. It’s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle). One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century 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. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage


Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 28, 2006


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 287 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 99


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches


Part of series ‏ : ‎ EinFach Englisch Unterrichtsmodelle Unterrichtsmodelle für die Schulpraxis


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    • Literary Horror in the Oprah Winfrey Book Club???
Format: Paperback
It was right there, in the description of the item in my Amazon cart; it was in parenthesis: (The Oprah Winfrey Book Club)--and, after a few clicks and an innocuous transfer of some money-numbers on a computer screen, the book was mine and it was on its way. Over the next couple of days, as I awaited the book's arrival, I had to wonder what I'd done. Was I actually going to like this book or was I going soft, like a piece of fruit being tossed (and dropped a few times) around the library by a couple of bored high-school kids that don't understand why anyone would read the book when you can just watch the movie? I'd been told to check out Cormac McCarthy several times over the past few years and I'd been putting it off. I like stories of the macabre, I told myself. I'm not mainstream. I don't like the sort of books that populate the shelves of Barnes and Noble. (Although I couldn't quite stifle that voice in the back of my head that kept whispering: What about King, you idiot. How much more mainstream can you get, you hypocritical bastard.) I thought that if Oprah liked it, the woman adored by so many middle-aged woman across America, it probably wasn't for me. When the book arrived, sure enough, there it was: that great big gleaming O sticker, stuck to the front of my new book like a tumor, a mark that, to me, was as glaring and hideous as a scarlet A. I took the book to work with me, shamefully hiding the Oprah Book Club sticker with my fingers, and I read the first 50 pages or so. I read some more at lunch. I was intrigued; I was curious; I was drawn into the world of the book. I hadn't imagined a place so perversely dark and hopeless, so vague and yet so very real--so very human. I forgot about that little sticker on the front cover and I finished the book in a day and I immediately looked up Oprah's Book Club--what other kinds of things were on that list? What was I missing? "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy is a very good book. Its subject matter is most decidedly horror, but its style and restraint are the qualities of good literature. It chronicles the journey of a man (never named) and his young son as they travel through a world after some sort of apocalyptic disaster (never explained). All we know is that it's cold, food is extremely scarce, and everything is in ruins, covered in ash and falling to pieces. McCarthy's sparse writing style works perfectly to convey the desperate numbness of humanity reduced to a state of aimless survivalist. People are kept locked in basements like cattle to be eaten by other people; a woman gives birth to a baby and roasts it on a spit for dinner with her male companions; all the plants and birds and everything is dead. It is a bleak world and a bleak story, but with a lot of heart and much to say about the nature of altruism and the human spirit. Now, I've looked through Oprah's list of books from the past few years and most of what's listed there are not of much interest to someone like me who loves the horror genre and loves subversive fiction (besides a few works of Faulkner), but I have to say it is a solid list of 'literary' pieces of writing that I'm sure are important and powerful in the canon. I must say, my respect for Oprah has jumped considerably after looking over her list of books and knowing that she actually reads and encourages others to read--in a society that is becoming more and more illiterate and loosing its historical memory, anyone totting the value of the written word is a commendable and upstanding member of the human race in my eyes. Read "The Road." It is a wonderful piece of literary horror fiction. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2011 by Keith Deininger
    • Beautiful and Desolate
This review contains SPOILERS. I will discuss plot points and the how the book ends in detail. IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THIS BOOK, AND DO NOT WISH TO KNOW HOW THIS BOOK ENDS DO NOT CONTINUE READING THIS REVIEW. Now if you continue on, I have given you ample warning and it's your own fault. The Road is a beautifully written account of a man and his son traveling the wasted post apocalyptic world. Love is the only thing that holds the two together and keeps them alive and moving forward where all things have become ash and death. McCarthy's style is compact and succinct in a way that is reminiscent of Hemingway's direct terseness. He effortlessly conveys deeply emotional situations with a few well chosen phrases. This book is a marvel to read simply for the language employed. The juxtaposition of the absolute horror of a world without life or joy set against the father and son whose love for each other is the only reason to continue to live is compelling and will keep the reader engrossed throughout the narrative. The two are constantly hungry and constantly on the lookout for "the bad guys". It turns out that "the bad guys" are any other living human being where all are starving without much food but the flesh of their fellow survivors. The boy never knew the world without this horror and the man can't let himself remember it, or else he will despair and give up. I loved this book, until the final pages. THIS IS THE MAJOR SPOILER PART. All throughout the book the man has been fighting tuberculosis, and at the end it finally kills him. He has saved one bullet in his revolver so that if the time should come he could kill the boy so that the boy could be spared the terrible fate of being raped, killed and eaten by other survivors as his dead mother had feared. Instead of killing the boy the man says that he just can't bear to hold his dead child in his arms, and tells the boy that he will be okay. Soon after the man dies a survivalist with a shotgun shows up and takes the boy with him where there is a safe home with a woman and two other children. This ending does not ring true. In all of the time that we follow the man and the boy they never meet one decent person. Then all of a sudden the boy is safe in the care of some miracle savior at the perfect time? I don't believe it. I think that it is the author who can't bear to hold the dead child in his arms. He could not face the grim ending he had set up for the entire span of the novel. Do I want to see the boy die? No, not at all. But the true ending is that the man kills the boy with that last bullet and then is himself overcome by his illness and dies. It's not pretty, but it is the real ending. If you have ignored my warnings about the spoilers and gotten this far, then I have to encourage you to read this book anyway despite the imperfect resolution. There is too much here that is of great value to dismiss the book because it has an unrealistic conclusion. It is deep and ponderous and will linger in your thoughts for a long, long time. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2010 by The Walking Dude

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