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steverobinson0
22nd Apr 2009
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In The Road by Cormac McCarthy an anonymous father and son's travel through a post-apocalyptic, ravaged landscape, which has been subjected to an unknown devastation, burned and with everything covered in grey ash. This is a profoundly moving novel which I could not put down and was sorry to finish. Cormac McCarthy's prose is simple, yet effective, and poetic. Truly one of the best books I have ever read.
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Harriet Klausner 28th Jul 2006
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf, Sep 2006, $24.00
ISBN 0307265439
The cities and much of the woodland have vanished in a pandemic inferno; the birds no longer fly as they all died in the catastrophe. Nothing seems to live in the oceans. Left behind is a world with few living species struggling to survive under a grey cover of ash that engulfs the planet.
A man and his son trek down the lonely road using a shopping cart to carry their possessions as they search for food to stave off sta ...- Read Harriet Klausner's review (271 words)




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