![]() ![]() 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. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. ![]() 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. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. ![]() Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive. About the Book At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of filial love. ![]()
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