![]() Plenty of artists over time have sought to create a world destroyed. The Road - dark, austere, meat-on-the-bone - took the Pulitzer for fiction in 2007. He has also written No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, which in 1992 won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. But those encounters are rare, underscoring how close-at-hand is human extinction - and how wantonly desperate are those who remain.Īuthor Cormac McCarthy is one of the prominent figures of serious contemporary literature he is no stranger to hardness of heart, the evil of men, life’s brutalities. Living day to day, hungry and hunting for food, hiding from roaming bandits whose fleeting intrusions and ominous presence bring palpable danger to the pair. They have no expectations at all really.īut they must move to survive, and theirs is a story of survival. They have no expectations for what they will find there. In that world a man and boy walk a road, pushing a shopping cart full of their belongings, wearing backpacks and tattered rags, their feet wrapped in cloth scraps. The Road does not read like science fiction it is stark in its realism, unblinkingly honest in its vision. ![]() Although, given the forces, violence and powers of human destruction threatening the planet today, it is a world easy to conjure, to believe in, and to dread. It is a world of the writer’s imagination. ![]() The landscape is bleak and grim, cold, gray, ashen, desolate. ![]()
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