It's hard to say anything about this book and not feel like a failure at writing. It's a damn good book and unbelievably well written.
The story is quick but sharp. It focuses entirely on the struggle of a father and his young son in a post-apocalyptic world. The disaster that apparently ended the world, the father's name, and the son's name is never disclosed, yet it remains personal. The father's struggle to provide for himself and his son years after after the frozen world has produced any fresh food. The way the boy grows in a world everyone he meets can be assumed to want him dead.
Essentially a story examining human nature in the time of crisis, The Road is very real and very powerful. Definitely not the kind of book I normally read but would absolutely recommend this to anyone. Carry a dictionary, McCarthy's vocabulary is daunting at best.
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