The road / Cormac McCarthy.
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.-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307387899
- ISBN: 9780307265432
- ISBN: 0307277925
- ISBN: 9780307476302
- ISBN: 9780307455291
- Physical Description: 241 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | 670L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 4 8 114669. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Fathers and sons > Fiction. Voyages and travels > Fiction. Regression (Civilization) > Fiction. Voyages and travels > United States > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Survival fiction. Robinsonades. Fiction. |
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- 98 of 120 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 2 of 2 copies available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)
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- 1 current hold with 120 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | FIC MCC (Text) | 37810435081855 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Old Fort Branch Library | FIC MCC (Text) | 37810434860184 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | FIC McCarthy (Text) | 31010000714651 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F MCCARTHY (Text) | 39493105530861 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albertson Community Library | PBF McC (Text) | 30372102033310 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Main Library | F McCarthy (Text) | 34269000827460 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | F MCCARTHY (Text) | 30664100184727 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 09/13/2024 |
| Andrews Public Library | F MCC (Text) | 80605000835453 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F MCC (Text) | 50503300259431 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | FIC MCC (Text) | 31111002286690 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
