![]() ![]() 250,000 announced first printing BOMC main selection. ![]() McCarthy establishes himself here as the closest thing in American literature to an Old Testament prophet, trolling the blackest registers of human emotion to create a haunting and grim novel about civilization's slow death after the power goes out. The man assures the boy that the two of them are "good guys," but from the way his father treats other stray survivors the boy sees that his father has turned into an amoral survivalist, tenuously attached to the morality of the past by his fierce love for his son. The Road to the Screen Has Been a Long One While McCarthys novels have often been adapted into award-winning films, such as the Academy Award-winning No Country for Old Men in 2007, Blood. Beyond the ever-present possibility of starvation lies the threat of roving bands of cannibalistic thugs. (The man's wife, who gave birth to the boy after calamity struck, has killed herself.) They carry blankets and scavenged food in a shopping cart, and the man is armed with a revolver loaded with his last two bullets. ![]() ![]() In this landscape, an unnamed man and his young son journey down a road to get to the sea. Violence, in McCarthy's postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in the form of a "long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that leaves cities and forests burned, birds and fish dead and the earth shrouded in gray clouds of ash. ![]()
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