The Road

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  • Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a novel about a father and son traveling through a post-apocalyptic landscape.

  • Plot Synopsis

    The Road follows a father and son as they journey together for many months across a post-apocalyptic landscape some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm. The story takes place in the former United States where civilization has been destroyed (along with most life). What is left of humanity now consists largely of bands of cannibals, their prey, and refugees who scavenge for canned food or other surviving foodstuffs. Realizing that he and his young son cannot survive another winter in their present location, the man sets out with his boy across what was once the Southeastern United States with the goal of reaching the warmer southern climates and the sea.

  • Critical Reception

    The book has received universal acclaim, earning a 90 out of 100 on the Metacritic review aggregator. The Chicago Tribune wrote: "A post-atomic apocalypse novel as we've never seen one before, a black book of wondrous paragraphs that reads as though Samuel Beckett had dared himself to outdo Harlan Ellison." A review from the New York Times stated: "The Road would be pure misery if not for its stunning, savage beauty....[It] offers nothing in the way of escape or comfort. But its fearless wisdom is more indelible than reassurance could ever be."

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      I c u hehehe. Ketch di sexy walk deh weh u have a come cross the road!
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      Walked 2.1 miles in 45 mins and felt good. Not a fan of having to walk on the road with THAT MUCH traffic. Clear the sidewalk!!
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      Its just smoothing out the road to recovery. And wish he'd realise its nothing that he's done or not done thats causing any of it.
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      "St Kilda Road all the way. I LOOOVE going all the way." The Flinders St tram platform conductor is the best.
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      @Bacardi803 Idk what is there to do on a tuesday?? I know I gotta hit dha road in the am no later than 7 so ii can make it to clasz
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