The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club) description
Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century," Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including the bestselling No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The ... review details
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An Unflinching Struggle
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This harsh, bleak and relentlessly intense novel focuses on the journey of a father and his son through a burnt, ravaged and desolate land. They are heading 'South' in search of a place where their chances of survival may be higher, where it's possibly safer and warmer. It is a journey unto which their lives depend upon and have to struggle.
The most striking feature in this novel is the smothered landscape, which the author envisions with great clarity and skill. He introduces the landscape at the beginning, 'Everything paling away in the murk...the ashen daylight'. It is a devasting, sombre and ruthless landscape. The words 'cold', 'damp', 'barren', 'ash', 'smoke' are used recurringly. The land devoid of human presence also lends a sinister and chilling atmosphere and when they do meet other people, especially the savage, dangerous people, the tensions arise to a suffocating level.
McCarthy writing style can be quite confounding at times. He digresses often, and uses it to delve into the mind of the father, who often doubts about their ability to survive but it is clever because one reads his mind just as thoughts passes through him. That style used when the father chides himself for his falliability and yearns for something better for his son is done very beautifully and is very touching. And so is the dialogue between father and son. The father has to grapple with the emotional innocence of his child and how he comprehends this world.
All said, this is a book that presents a brutally pessimistic portrait of humanity in all its crippled state, with no recourse and hope. And while a father and his son trudges through a condemned landscape, with little chances for survival, their efforts to survive offers some consolation. |
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