Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, The Road tells the story of a father and son as they journey across a post-apocalyptic landscape that has destroyed most of civilization.
Cormac McCarthy is one of the most enigmatic and reclusive superstars of the modern literary world. Living and writing from El Paso, Texas, he has shunned all requests for interviews, appearances at bookshops or literary festivals.Nonetheless, he remains one of the most admired writers of the last fifty years. His eight novels have received extraordinary reviews, being hailed as masterpieces of American literature. He has won the American National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the first book of The Border Trilogy.Cormac McCarthy is the author of twelve novels and a play. All his novels are available in Picador editions. He died in June 2023.
So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent
*Telegraph*
[The Road,] heartbreaking and haunting, has an overbearing, almost
suffocating atmosphere . . . you cannot forget you’ve read it
*The Times*
McCarthy’s novel was one of the triggers for my writing Room; I
wanted to see what a mother-child modern myth would look like,
because his father-child one was so powerful
*Emma Donoghue, author of Room and Haven*
The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here
is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a
contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
*Andrew O’Hagan, author of Our Fathers and
Mayflies*
You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerized. All
the modern novel can do is done here
*Alan Warner, author of Morvern Callar*
McCarthy conjures from this pitiless flight the miracle of
unswerving humanity. Gripping beyond belief
*Sunday Telegraph*
One of the most shocking and harrowing but ultimately redemptive
books I have read. It is an intensely intimate story. It is also a
warning
*Observer Books of the Year*
A masterpiece that will soon be considered a classic
*Herald*
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