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Rent The Road
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Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-MP3, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: Sep 2006
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $29.99
Discs: 6
Synopsis
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 wearting, 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.
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Reviews
I read the paper version of this book before I listened to it being read, and I didn't notice until I listened to it how monotone was the post-apocalyptic world as McCarthy describes it. I guess I read the words in a paper---real?---book so quickly that I don't stop very often to paint pictures with them in my mind, but listening to the CDs, I was constantly reminded how colorless---and therefore hopeless?---the new world had become. I was hard put to describe what I thought about the printed book because it's very different from most of the books I've ever read, but I enjoyed very much listening to the audiobook being read to me. Cormac McCarthy is definitely going on my list of Favorite Authors.
Beautifully written book but horribly depressing. Had some problems with the amount of time since the disaster to current state of the world. Still, the book was most definitely worth reading/listening to. Paints a very clear picture of a desolate America. Although I haven’t read the “Grapes of Wrath in 15 years, I believe both books have a similar feel to them.