num_pages: 6
description: A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. 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. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. 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. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
language: English
title: The Road
titlecomplete: The Road
characters: The man, The boy
genres: Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic, Horror, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 868488
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Quill Award
category: General Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor Novela Extranjera, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Puddly Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Believer Book Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Cena Akademie SFFH
category: Kniha roku (Book of the Year), awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats hors Québec, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premios Fervenzas Literarias
category: Traducción , awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Dublin Literary Award