The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Road by Cormac McCarthy


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book delivered, as promised, a stark and terse account of a post-apocalyptic America peopled only by a few nomads, including the protagonist and his young son. The writing is vague and poetic, with gruesome images that remain even when the short book is over.
The young boy's education about the world by his father- that this is a place to be wary of, that people are to hide from and fear, to shoot first and ask questions later- and his defiance of this view renders bittersweet belief in humanity, afterall the destruction.

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