The Road - Cormac McCarthy
This book was getting all sorts of press when it first published, but I didn’t have high hopes from an “Oprah’s Book Club” selection.
Man, oh man . . . I was way off. This book was amazing, heartbreaking, tragic, dark, haunting, redemptive. It’s a post-apocalyptic story about a man and his son, walking a road, just trying to survive. That’s it. You never hear what caused the world to be this way, McCarthy only offers glimpses into what this world really is like (but they are terrible, horrible insights), and the story doesn’t really resolve. But it’s a beautiful book with a great, simple prose and a stellar introduction to me of Mr. McCarthy’s work.
note: We finally watched No Country For Old Men a couple nights ago, which is the acclaimed movie adaptation of McCarthy’s acclaimed novel of the same name. Also amazing.
