For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has...
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The sparse writing style and heartbreaking situation provide an unusual background in which to examine the father/son relationship. I kept wondering how he was going to end the story given there seemed to be no way out of the dreary, gray world created but McCarthy but the ending proved just as sadly beautiful as the rest of the book. I couldn't put it down.
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
turnthepages, January 1, 2009
The sparse writing style and heartbreaking situation provide an unusual background in which to examine the father/son relationship. I kept wondering how he was going to end the story given there seemed to be no way out of the dreary, gray world created but McCarthy but the ending proved just as sadly beautiful as the rest of the book. I couldn't put it down.(17 of 37 readers found this comment helpful)