<span>The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside, lying in wait. Attempting to survive in this brave new world, the young boy and his protector have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves. They must keep walking. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Road is an incandescent novel, the story of a remarkable and profoundly moving journey. In this unflinching study of the best and worst of humankind, Cormac McCarthy boldly divines a future without hope, but one in which, miraculously, this young family finds tenderness. An exemplar of post-apocalyptic writing, The Road is a true modern classic, a masterful, moving and increasingly prescient novel. This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador's 50th Anniversary year. McCarthy's eagerly anticipated new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, will be published by Picador in October 2022.</span>
<h3><span>Review</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span>So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Telegraph</span><span><br><br>[</span><span class="a-text-italic">The Road</span><span>,] heartbreaking and haunting, has an overbearing, almost suffocating atmosphere . . . you cannot forget you’ve read it ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">The Times</span><span><br><br>McCarthy’s novel was one of the triggers for my writing </span><span class="a-text-italic">Room</span><span>; I wanted to see what a mother-child modern myth would look like, because his father-child one was so powerful -- Emma Donoghue, author of </span><span class="a-text-italic">Room</span><span> and </span><span class="a-text-italic">Haven</span><span><br><br>The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. -- Andrew O’Hagan, author of </span><span class="a-text-italic">Our Fathers</span><span> and </span><span class="a-text-italic">Mayflies</span><span><br><br>You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerized. All the modern novel can do is done here -- Alan Warner, author of </span><span class="a-text-italic">Morvern Callar</span><span><br><br>McCarthy conjures from this pitiless flight the miracle of unswerving humanity. Gripping beyond belief -- Chris Cleave ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Sunday Telegraph</span><span><br><br>One of the most shocking and harrowing but ultimately redemptive books I have read. It is an intensely intimate story. It is also a warning -- Kirsty Wark ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Observer Books of the Year</span><span><br><br>A masterpiece that will soon be considered a classic ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Herald</span> </div> <h3><span>About the Author</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span>Cormac McCarthy is the author of many highly acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, All The Pretty Horses and No Country For Old Men. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road.</span> </div>
