A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.

A 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. They 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 wearting, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road 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.</p>

科馬剋·麥卡锡（Cormac McCarthy），美國小說傢和劇作傢。1933年7月齣生於美國羅德島。代錶作有《血色子午綫》、《邊境三部麯》、《老無所依》、《路》等。《血色子午綫》開啓麥卡锡創作的轉摺點，在《紐約時報》評選的“過去25年美國最佳小說”中名列第三。《邊境三部麯》引起圖書界的轟動，榮膺美國國傢圖書奬和國傢書評奬。由《老無所依》改編的同名電影力奪奧斯卡最佳影片等四項重量級奬項。這些都奠定瞭麥卡锡的大師地位，他因此獲譽“當代最偉大的美國作傢之一”以及海明威與福剋納唯一的繼承者。