{"product_id":"the-road-isbn-9780307265432","title":"The Road","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive that “only adds to McCarthy’s stature as a living master. It’s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Fiction Book of the Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.\u003cp\u003e“Despite Cormac McCarthy’s reputation as an ornate stylist, \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003erepresents both  the logical terminus, and a kind of ultimate triumph, of the American minimalism  that became well-known in the 1980s under the banner of ‘dirty realism’ . . . \u003ci\u003eThe  Road \u003c\/i\u003eis a much more compelling and demanding book than its predecessor . . . The  new novel will not let the reader go, and will horribly invade his dreams, too .  . . \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003eis not a science fiction, not an allegory, and not a critique of the  way we live now, or of the-way-we-might-live-if-we-keep-on-living-the-way-we-live-now.  It poses a simpler question, more taxing for the imagination and far closer to the  primary business of fiction-making: what would this world without people look like,  feel like? These questions McCarthy answers magnificently . . . [His] devotion to  detail, his Conradian fondness for calmly described horrors, his tolling fatal sentences,  make the reader shiver with fear and recognition . . . When McCarthy is writing at  his best, he does indeed belong in the company of the American masters. In his best  pages one can hear Melville and Lawrence, Conrad and Hardy. His novels are full of  marvelous depictions of birds in flight, and \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003ehas a gorgeous paragraph like  something out of Hopkins . . . The writing [is] often breathtaking.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–James Wood,  \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fundamentally it marks not a departure but a return to McCarthy’s  most brilliant genre work, combined in a manner we have not seen since \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e:  adventure and Gothic horror. That book is usually viewed not only as McCarthy’s greatest–a  view I passionately share–but as representing a kind of fulcrum [in his career] .  . . There are strong echoes of the Jack London—style adventure [and] \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e [in \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e] . . . For naturalism operating at the utmost extremes of the natural  world and of human endurance a McCarthy novel has no peer. . . McCarthy has to be  accounted as a secret master and the rightful heir to the American Gothic tradition  of Poe and Lovecraft . . . I think ultimately it is as a lyrical epic of horror that  \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e is best understood . . . The father is visited as poignantly and dreadfully  as Odysseus or Aeneas by ghosts . . . Replete both with bleak violence and acute  suspense, [this is] a layered, tightly constructed narrative that partakes of the  epic virtue it attempts to abnegate . . . What emerges most powerfully as one reads  \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e is not a prognosticatory or satirical warning about the future, or a timeless  parable of a father’s devotion to his son, or yet another McCarthyesque examination  of the violent underpinnings of all social intercourse and the indifference of the  cosmic jaw to the bloody morsel of humanity . . . It is a testament to the abyss  of a parent’s greatest fears . . . It is in the audacity and single-mindedness with  which \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e extends the metaphor of a father’s guilt and heartbreak over abandoning  his son to shift for himself in a ruined, friendless world that \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e finds its  great power to move and horrify the reader.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Michael Chabon, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of  Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s hard to think of [an apocalypse tale] as beautifully, hauntingly constructed  as this one. McCarthy possess a massive, Biblical vocabulary and he unleashes it  in this book with painterly effect . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003etakes him to a whole new level  . . . It will grip even the coldest human heart.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–John Freeman, \u003ci\u003eSunday Star-Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rendered in beautiful and powerful prose . . . McCarthy still stands tall among  our best writers . . . In the nightmarish setting that McCarthy has envisioned, humanity  shines brightly through.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Connor Ennis, \u003ci\u003eThe Associated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e [is] Cormac  McCarthy’s new masterpiece . . . Lush, sensuous prose . . . Gorgeous descriptions  . . . . . . He evokes Hemingway’s literary vision in order to invert it, first by  eliminating the promise that nature can provide a refuge from human destruction and  finally by giving us redemption in the form of the love between a parent and a child.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Jennifer Egan,\u003ci\u003e Slate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The love between the father and the son is one of the most  profound relationships McCarthy has ever written.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Yvonne Zipp, \u003ci\u003eChristian Science  Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e is a wildly powerful and disturbing book that exposes whatever  black bedrock lies beneath grief and horror. Disaster has never felt more physically  and spiritually real. In a way McCarthy is the last survivor of a vanished world.  He is, essentially, a modernist, miraculously preserved like a literary coelacanth  from the age of Hemingway and Faulkner, writers of high style and high purpose without  an iota of aw-shucks relatability . . . There’s a stripped-down intensity to his  work that is just awesome.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Lev Grossman, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of McCarthy’s best novels,  probably his most moving and perhaps his most personal . . . Every moment of \u003ci\u003eThe  Road\u003c\/i\u003e is rich with dilemmas that are as shattering as they are unspoken . . . McCarthy  is so accomplished that the reader senses the mysterious and intuitive changes between  father and son that can’t be articulated, let alone dramatized . . . Both lyric and  savage, both desperate and transcendent, although transcendence is singed around  the edges . . . Tag McCarthy one of the four or five great American novelists of  his generation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Steve Erickson,\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No American writer  since Faulkner has wandered so willingly into the swamp waters of deviltry and redemption  . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e] is Beckett at its most gritty . . . McCarthy is too seasoned a writer  to over dramatize what may be the last drama of all . . . The reader feels a bone-deep  identification with the characters’ plight . . . And to its credit, you don’t see  what has to be coming in this endgame novel–a moment of such simple goodness and  humanity that even its elegiac fact is a thing of comfort . . . He has written this  last waltz with enough elegant reserve to capture what matters most.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Gail Caldwell,  \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As a reader of everything good I can get my hands on, I’m always thrilled  when a fine writer of first-class fiction takes up the genre of science fiction and  matches its possibilities with his or her own powers . . . Now Cormac McCarthy, one  of our country’s most lauded writers, has done it and made a dark book that glows  with the intensity of his huge gift for language. \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e is a postatomic apocalypse  novel as we’ve never seen one before, a black book of wondrous paragraphs that reads  as though Samuel Beckett had dared himself to outdo Harlan Ellison . . . Why read  this? Aside from the fact that Cormac McCarthy could write instructions on a microwave  that sounded like a version of the King James Bible, why keep pushing ahead? Because  in its lapidary transcription of the deepest despair short of total annihilation  we may ever know, this book announces the triumph of language over nothingness.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Alan Cheuse, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chilling and beautiful . . . The reader is captivated  and surprisingly, charmed. To such bleakness McCarthy brings the real and genuine  warmth of humanity . . . Breathtaking . . . McCarthy justifies the very worth of  fiction in the consummate breadth and dimension of his work.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Andrew Hubner, \u003ci\u003eNew  York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“McCarthy is a gutsy, powerful storyteller . . . The writing throughout  is magnificent.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–John Barron, \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[McCarthy] might be expected to  rest on his laurels as one of our best living novelists. Instead, it is clear that  McCarthy is not going gently into that good night . . . We find this violent, grotesque  world rendered in gorgeous, melancholic, even biblical cadences . . . Few books can  do more; few have done better. Read this book.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Duane Davis, \u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cormac McCarthy’s subject in his new novel is as big as it gets: the end of the  civilized world, the dying of life on the planet and the spectacle of it all. He  has written a visually stunning picture of how it looks at the end to two pilgrims  on the road to nowhere . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003eis a dynamic tale, offered in the often exalted  prose that is McCarthy’s signature, but this time in restrained doses . . . Vivid,  eloquent . . . The accessibility of this book, the love between father and son expressed  in their quicksilver conversations, and the pathos of their story will make the novel  popular, perhaps beyond \u003ci\u003eAll the Pretty Horses \u003c\/i\u003e. . . \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003eis the most readable  of his works, and consistently brilliant in its imagining of the posthumous condition  of nature and civilization . . . The rhythmic poetry of McCarthy’s formidable talent  has made us see the blasted world as clearly as Conrad wanted us to see.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–William  Kennedy, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(cover)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His most compelling, moving and accessible  novel since \u003ci\u003eAll the Pretty Horses \u003c\/i\u003e. . .\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMcCarthy is particularly well-suited to the  task [of imagining a post-nuclear world] because he writes so beautifully and convincingly  about violence, despair and men in desperate situations . . . McCarthy brilliantly  captures the knife edge that fugitives in a hostile world stand on . . . This makes  for genuine suspense . . . Amid this Godot-like bleakness, McCarthy shares something  vital and enduring about the boy’s spirit, his father’s love and the nature of bravery  itself.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Deirdre Donahue, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Admirers of Cormac McCarthy will find themselves  in reassuringly familiar territory with his new book, \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e. The setting may have  shifted away from the West [but] the tale retains McCarthy’s invigoratingly austere  worldview . . . What saves the book from nihilism, though, is the tenderness with  which McCarthy treats his two main characters . . . This is a story of great extremes.  There are some truly harrowing scenes of evil in the book, told without fanfare,  and then–running in stark counterpoint–come startling gestures of compassion and  pity. And the book feels \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e, which is perhaps its most impressive accomplishment.  Good writing is always about the details, and as usual McCarthy gets everything right  . . . This whittling away [of his prose] brings to the forefront one of McCarthy’s  greatest gifts as a writer:  the purity and vigor of his storytelling. While \u003ci\u003eThe  Road\u003c\/i\u003e is undeniably a work of high literature, its narrative moves forward with such  irresistible momentum that it nonetheless reads like a page turner. Immerse yourself  in the first few paragraphs, and that’s all it will take; you’ll be hooked till the  very end.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Scott Smith, \u003ci\u003eBorders shortlist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Devastating . . . McCarthy has never  seemed more at home, more eloquent, than in the sere, postapocalyptic ash land of  \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003e. . . Extraordinarily lovely and sad . . . [A] masterpiece.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Jennifer Reese,  \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003eis a Dantean tour of hell that would make Dante himself  shudder . . . [McCarthy’s] most searing and masterful work since 1985’s \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian \u003c\/i\u003e. . . \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003ecarries the power to echo through you for an entire lifetime.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Jonathan  Miles, \u003ci\u003eMen’s Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Trenchant and terrifying, written with stripped-down urgency  and fueled by the force of a universal nightmare. \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003e[has] stunning, savage  beauty. This is an exquisitely bleak incantation–pure poetic brimstone . . . [Cormac  McCarthy] gives voice to the unspeakable . . . Yet this narrative is also illuminated  by extraordinary tenderness . . . This is art that both frightens and inspires .  . . Its fearless wisdom is more indelible than reassurance could ever be.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Janet  Maslin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e is the logical culmination of everything [McCarthy]’s  written. It is also, paradoxically, his most humane and compassionate book . . .  The question that the novel implicitly poses–how much can you subtract from human  existence before it ceases to be human?–takes on heartbreaking force . . . One measure  of a good writer is the ability to surprise. Terse, unsentimental, bleak–McCarthy’s  readers have been down \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c\/i\u003e road before. But who would ever have thought you’d call  him touching?” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003eMalcolm Jones, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e] conjures a compelling and memorable  dread . . . Wrenchingly elegiac . . . Single plot twists chill the blood . . . Under  Mr. McCarthy’s bleakness burns a retroactive treasuring. To wit, even with rising  oil prices, terrorism and insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq, there may come a  time when readers look back in wonder that they ever had it so good.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Its harrowing, utterly realistic descriptions of primal human struggle against  an implacable landscape hark back to the author’s definitive work, 1985’s \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e . . . McCarthy’s depiction of the father’s plight is heartbreaking . . . The novel  is, of course, beautifully written . . . Tableaux of the ruined landscape demonstrate  that his poetic gifts have only deepened over the years . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003eis] thoroughly  arresting in its bleak grandeur, and is a handsome addition to the author’s illustrious  canon.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Hank Shteamer, \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The novel is awesome, a kind of reality-based  Beckett, moving and unbelievably believable in its portrayal of horror and dread  and hopelessness in the next Dark Age . . . Transcendently bleak.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Kurt Andersen,  \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Even by McCarthy’s standards, the horrors here are extreme .  . . But McCarthy’s prose retains its ability to seduce and there are nods to the  gentler aspects of the human spirit.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A bare description of Cormac  McCarthy’s new novel sounds painfully bleak . . . Yet for all this, \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003eprovides  the mesmerized reader with exhilaration, even joy. What makes the novel so profoundly  affecting is the intensity of McCarthy’s imaginative immersion: He sees the most  extraordinary details . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003edeserves to last: It is an overwhelming achievement  and may be the first truly great work of American art in the new century.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–\u003ci\u003eO, \u003c\/i\u003eThe  Oprah Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The genius of McCarthy’s work [is] in its bold, seamless melding  of private revelation, cultural insight, and unabashed philosophizing . . . The freshness  he brings to this end-of-the-world narrative is quite stunning: It may be the saddest,  most haunting book he’s ever written or that you’ll ever read . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003e[is]  more \u003ci\u003eTime of the Wolf \u003c\/i\u003ethan \u003ci\u003eMad Max, \u003c\/i\u003eand more \u003ci\u003eKuroi Ame \u003c\/i\u003ethan either of those . . .  McCarthy’s purest fable yet . . . Hypnotic, gut-punching prose and bracing depictions  of emotional longing . . . The tender precariousness of \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e’s human relationships  is what finally makes it such a beautiful, difficult, near perfect work.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Mark Holcomb,  \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003eis filled with McCarthy’s famous nihilistic violence  and moral essentialism. The tense narrative is pared down to the duo’s basic quest  for survival, making for some masterful suspense . . . Include[s] terse, powerful  elegies . . . Chilling.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Florence Williams, \u003ci\u003eOutside \u003c\/i\u003emagazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“McCarthy may have  just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war . . . It is  the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that  could surprise readers of McCarthy's previous work . . . McCarthy has always written  about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9%  of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running  low on batteries. In \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e, those batteries are almost out–the entire world is,  quite literally, dying–so the final affirmation of hope in the novel's closing pages  is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of  his father's (and McCarthy's) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down,  lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Dennis Lehane, Amazon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cormac McCarthy [is] the elemental prose stylist of our time . . . [His] chilling  tenth novel is unlike anything he’s ever written . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e] is an adventure  . . . the sort of book that, if only for the relentless clarity of the writing, the  lucid descriptions of the grasses, the mud, the thorns, and the very arc of the road  that cuts through all that, presents a clear and episodic progress from one small  terror to the next . . . You should read this book because it is exactly what a book  about our future ought to be.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Tom Chiarella, \u003ci\u003eEsquire \u003c\/i\u003e(Big Book of the Month)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In  this stunning departure from his previous work, McCarthy envisions a postapocalyptic  scenario . . . Its spare, precise language is rich with other explorations, too:  hope in the face of hopelessness, the ephemeral nature of our existence, the vanishing  world we all carry within us. McCarthy evokes Beckett, using repetition and negation  to crushing effect, showing us by their absence the things we will miss. Hypnotic  and haunting, relentlessly dark, this is a novel to read in late-night solitude.  Though the focus never leaves the two travelers, they carry our humanity, and we  can’t help but feel the world hangs in the balance of their hopeless quest. A masterpiece.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Keir Graff, \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Even within the author’s extraordinary body of  work, this stands as a radical achievement, a novel that demands to be read and reread  . . . A parable that reads like \u003ci\u003eNight of the Living Dead \u003c\/i\u003eas rewritten by Samuel Beckett  . . . The relationship between father and son has a sweetness that represents all  that’s good in a universe where conventional notions of good and evil have been extinguished.  Amid the bleakness of survival there are glimmers of comedy . . . [McCarthy’s] prose  combines the cadence of prophecy with the indelible images of poetry. A novel of  horrific beauty, where death is the only truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A]  postapocalyptic tour de force . . . McCarthy establishes himself here as the closest  thing in American literature to an Old Testament prophet, trolling the blackest registers  of human emotion to create a haunting and grim novel about civilization’s slow death  after the power goes out.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003c\/p\u003eThe novels of the American writer, Cormac McCarthy, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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