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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. The 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.

This novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection.]]> 4178 4.00 104534 20924 2006 5 0 true Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 16:28:14 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 22:17:18 -0700 2009
I'll say, though, I'm still shaking off the creative writing workshop drone in me that says never put a loaded gun in a story if you don't intend to use it. And the first bum doesn't count.]]>