The Road
Post-apocalyptic novel about a father and his young son who face a grueling journey on foot across a decimated landscape after an unspecified extinction event has killed most of civilization. All they have to survive is a pistol with two rounds in it, the clothes on their backs, a cart of scavenged goods, and each other. Threatening them on the road are thieves, cannibals, and starvation. It’s a gut-wrenching and heartbreaking story about survival in a world that has lost its light. Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and basis for the 2009 film by John Hillcoat that starred Viggo Mortenson and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The film received generally positive reviews and remained pretty true to the book.
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Knopf, 2006. National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (2006). ISBN: 0307265439. #10290.
Fine in fine dust jacket.