Cormac McCarthy’s novel The road [ISBN 978 0 307 38789 9] is a post-Apolcalypse story well conceived, imaginative and well written – but it is relentlessly downbeat and quite repetitive in tone and overall I found it a deeply depressing view of human nature.
Cormac McCarthy’s novel The road [ISBN 978 0 307 38789 9] is a post-Apolcalypse story well conceived, imaginative and well written – but it is relentlessly downbeat and quite repetitive in tone and overall I found it a deeply depressing view of human nature.
A father and his son (we never know any names in this book) are walking alone through the burned remains of Amercia where only the ash blows about the cold and bleak landscape. They are making for the coast, though they don’t know why. They have a grocery cart of scavenged tins and other food but they are cold and hungry and frightened of the bands of people around looking for them to eat them. Depressing stuff. And it doesn’t get any better.
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