A nameless father and his son walk through an empty, chaotic, burned America. In this post-apocalyptic tale, the boy and his father must learn to survive in a world without rules, must fend for their lives in a place where acts of unthinkable horror happen every day.Appeals: Harrowing, post-apocalyptic setting, sparse language, survival tale.
If you enjoy tales of journey and survival, you may also like What is the What by Dave Eggers, How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, and Blindness by Jose Saramago.
No trailer yet, but the movie adaptation of The Road is set to come out some time in 2009.
McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. 2006. 256 pages.
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