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The Road

Auteur(s): Cormac McCarthy
Narrateur(s): Tom Stechschulte
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Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2007

America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.

Bleak but brilliant, with glimmers of hope and humor, The Road is a stunning allegory and perhaps Cormac McCarthy's finest novel to date. This remarkable departure from his previous works has been hailed by Kirkus Reviews as a "novel of horrific beauty, where death is the only truth".

McCarthy, a New York Times best-selling author, is a past recipient of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. He is widely considered one of America's greatest writers.

©2006 M-71, Ltd. (P)2006 Recorded Books LLC Fantastique Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Science-fiction Dystopique Effrayant Spirituel Émotionnellement captivant Sincère

Ce que les critiques en disent

"McCarthy's prose retains its ability to seduce...and there are nods to the gentler aspects of the human spirit." (The New Yorker)
"One of McCarthy's best novels, probably his most moving and perhaps his most personal...Every moment of The Road is rich with dilemmas that are as shattering as they are unspoken...McCarthy is so accomplished that the reader senses the mysterious and intuitive changes between father and son that can't be articulated, let alone dramatized...Both lyric and savage, both desperate and transcendent, although transcendence is singed around the edges...Tag McCarthy one of the four or five great American novelists of his generation." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
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Never listened to anything like this. Was worried it was going to be to sad for me, but even though it is very said, it still uplifts you in odd ways.

Narrator-11 out of 10

Dark but not unbearable, very real.

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beautifully written, beautifully read. elegance in the pain. captures something that cannot be described with normal words. An ending that rivals all great endings and to me came out on top.

oh ma heart

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I read this book in highschool and first getting audible this was my first choice always a great read!

Outstanding

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Beautiful story. Narrator was not bad, but I wish he didn't speak through clenched teeth when the father is angry and speaking to the boy. The anger seemed far too aggressive for the storyline.

Exceptional story

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I wish for more input as to what had happened to the earth rather than just the setting of an apocalypse with no wildlife/vegetation/no food etc;

Found the boy to be quite insufferable at times. Annoying and contradictory.

Not bad

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If you’re looking at some of these reviews that call this book “boring, dreadful, pointless” and other derogatory terms, rest assured that those people completely missed the ever-loving point of this book.

It’s a slice of a father and son’s life, at the end of the world.

Harrowing, touching, terrifying, all without a single name being given.

McCarthy’s prose is godlike.

Masterpiece, apparently misunderstood by many.

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I've read this book in the past but the narrator truly manages to bring the story and characters to life.

Incredible.

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When an author is really good, you can hear them speak about storytelling while they tell you a story, nothing interferes with anything else because the environment is so sparse. Simple language belies the profound search for meaning one man seeks for and from his young son during the apocalypse.

Minimalism = desolate landscape

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Couldn't stop listening until the end. Creates an atmosphere that I was lost inside.

Fantastic

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This book was a great boys' post-apocalyptic story with its lack of women (except in memory with her shirt taut across her breasts), men being men, and people generally not getting along. The writing was great with its description and expansive vocabulary, but too unbelievable for me due to the author's gender biases and misperceptions.

Great performance, and vocabulary

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