McCarthy, Cormac. The road, New York : Knopf 2006.McCarthy's best-seller is set on an earth whose lunar surface (under perennially grey skies) is home to the last vestiges of humanity. Among roving bands of scavengers and cannibalistic gangs, a man and his son set out on a testing voyage to the sea, and hopefully salvation. Among the way, McCarthy examines what it means to preserve oneself and all one loves (embodied by the protective relationship between the father and the son), while pragmatically sacrificing moral scruples to the demands of survival.
The Road earned McCarthy a slew of awards (including the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award), and its treatment of filial love and the human survival instinct is a must-read for connoisseurs of the post-apocalyptic.
