The Road by Cormac McCarthy
In a bleak, ash-choked world ravaged by an unspecified catastrophe, a father and his young son journey on foot toward the coast, pushing a cart of their meager possessions and eking out food while avoiding bands of desperate, violent survivors; along the way they struggle with exposure, starvation, and the moral dilemmas of preserving their humanity, the father's fierce protectiveness and the boy's innocence providing fragile sources of hope as they travel through ruins and confront the costs of survival.
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- Published
- 2006
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 324
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- Die Straße
- La Route
- La carretera
- La strada
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