The road
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Published
New York : Vintage International, [2006].
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 21 cm
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Fiction - Adult Books
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Published
New York : Vintage International, [2006].
Format
Book
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 4, 8 Points
Level 4, 8 Points
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"(2009) - John Hilcoat w. Charlize Theron, Viggo Mortenson, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall, Brenan Roth, Molly Parker" -from Collector's description.,NNCU-C
Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
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Publisher description for "The road"--"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. The 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 wearing, 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."
Ownership and Custodial History
The Gerald Peary Collection consists of approximately 4,000 fiction and non-fiction books on which feature films were based and represents over thirty years of research and collecting. Collector/scholar Gerald Peary taught film studies for thirty-five years at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. The author of nine books and writer-director of three feature documentaries, he served on film festival juries around the world and wrote on film for many publications including The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Toronto Globe and Mail, and The Los Angeles Times.,NNCU-C
Awards
Pulitzer Prize, 2007
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