The Road

I do like a good post-disaster tale and so when Cormac McCarthy’s book The Road was recommended to me, I reserved it at my local library.

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A week later and it’s here.  Just started and intrigued so far. To quote Amazon:

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…

He, as you may know, wrote the book No Country For Old Men, itself turned into a searing and award-winning movie in 2007.  The film of The Road is currently in post-production and due out around October 2009. What bodes well is that it’s directed by John Hillcoat, of the stunning and masterful The Proposition fame.

Yes I am reading two books at once. Or that’s the plan at least.