01761cam a2200277 4500 89041715 TxAuBib 20111019120000.0 081202s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307472120 pbk. 0307472124 pbk. SDL SDL NOG TxAuBib McCarthy, Cormac. The road / Cormac McCarthy. 1st Vintage International open-market ed. New York : Vintage International, 2007. 287 p. ; 18 cm. Movie tie-in. In this postapocalyptic novel, 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. This book 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. 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.--From publisher description. 20111019. Fathers and sons Fiction. Survival skills Fiction. Voyages and travels Fiction. Regression (Civilization) Fiction. Robinsonades. gsafd