Review
From the book jacket: 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:...
Beyond the Book
Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island. He attended the University of
Tennessee in the early 1950s, and joined the U.S. Air Force, serving four years,
two of them stationed in Alaska. McCarthy then returned to the university, where
he published in the student literary magazine and won the Ingram-Merrill Award
for creative writing in 1959 and 1960. McCarthy next went to Chicago, where he
worked as an auto mechanic while writing his first novel,
The Orchard Keeper,
published in 1965.
Outer
Dark was published in1968, followed by
Child of God in 1973. From 1974 to 1975, McCarthy worked on the
screenplay for a PBS film called
The Gardener's Son, which premiered in
1977.
In the late 1970s, McCarthy moved to Texas, and in...
