The Road

by Cormac McCarthy | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780330447546 Global Overview for this book
Registered by MarthaK-H of Lewisham, Greater London United Kingdom on 7/28/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by MarthaK-H from Lewisham, Greater London United Kingdom on Monday, July 28, 2008
Amazon Synopsis:

A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This is the profoundly moving story of their journey. "The Road" boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which two people, '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. '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 ...An absolutely wonderful book that people will be reading for generations' - Andrew O'Hagan. 'A work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away' - Tom Gatti, "The Times". 'So good that it will devour you, in parts. It is incandescent' - Niall Griffiths, "Daily Telegraph". 'You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerised. All the modern novel can do is done here' - Alan Warner, "Guardian".

Journal Entry 2 by MarthaK-H from Lewisham, Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, September 19, 2008
Probably not the best book to choose if you like happy resolutions & neatly tied up endings!

I really like the author's basic style with his lack of speech punctuation and separation of chapters - I have only known one other author to adopt this style - Jon McGregor - and I loved both his novels. It seems to give the text a fresh edge & thats exactly what you need with this rather devastating story. It got me from the beginning & being continuous text I never found a good moment to put it down. The bleakness described is a haunting read and its relentless throughout. Its definately a different style of novel than I have read before & can see why it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

As I also have 'No Country for Old Men' on my TBR pile, I'm now looking forward to reading it even more!!

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Taken to the Daventry Meet and added to the table of books.

Journal Entry 4 by Paws4Books from Deal, Kent United Kingdom on Sunday, October 26, 2008
This one didn't actually make it to the meet...i pounced on it before it left my house! Looks like a good read and was enjoyed so i look forward to reading it myself and hopefully soon!

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