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An edition of The Road (2006)

Droga

Wyd. 1.
  • 3.9 (134 ratings) ·
  • 626 Want to read
  • 18 Currently reading
  • 183 Have read

Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. The sky is perpetually shrouded by dust and toxic particulates; the seasons are merely varied intensities of cold and dampness. Bands of cannibals roam the roads and inhabit what few dwellings remain intact in the woods.

Through this nightmarish residue of America a haggard father and his young son attempt to flee the oncoming Appalachian winter and head towards the southern coast along carefully chosen back roads. Mummified corpses are their only benign companions, sitting in doorways and automobiles, variously impaled or displayed on pikes and tables and in cake bells, or they rise in frozen poses of horror and agony out of congealed asphalt. The boy and his father hope to avoid the marauders, reach a milder climate, and perhaps locate some remnants of civilization still worthy of that name. They possess only what they can scavenge to eat, and the rags they wear and the heat of their own bodies are all the shelter they have. A pistol with only a few bullets is their only defense besides flight. Before them the father pushes a shopping cart filled with blankets, cans of food and a few other assets, like jars of lamp oil or gasoline siphoned from the tanks of abandoned vehicles—the cart is equipped with a bicycle mirror so that they will not be surprised from behind.

Through encounters with other survivors brutal, desperate or pathetic, the father and son are both hardened and sustained by their will, their hard-won survivalist savvy, and most of all by their love for each other. They struggle over mountains, navigate perilous roads and forests reduced to ash and cinders, endure killing cold and freezing rainfall. Passing through charred ghost towns and ransacking abandoned markets for meager provisions, the pair battle to remain hopeful. They seek the most rudimentary sort of salvation. However, in The Road, such redemption as might be permitted by their circumstances depends on the boy’s ability to sustain his own instincts for compassion and empathy in opposition to his father’s insistence upon their mutual self-interest and survival at all physical and moral costs.

The Road was the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
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Publisher
Wydawn. Literackie
Language
Polish
Pages
266

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The Road
The Road
2010, Picador
Paperback in English - printing (12)
Cover of: The Road
The Road
2009?, Vintage International
Paperback in English - 1st Vintage International ed., movie tie-in (28)
Cover of: The Road
The Road
2009, Vintage International
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Vintage International edition (1); Movie tie-in
Cover of: La route
La route
2008-09, Éd. France loisirs
Hardcover in French - Edition du Club France Loisirs
Cover of: The Road
The Road
2008, Vintage International
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Vintage International open-market ed., Movie Tie-In (1)
Cover of: Droga
Droga
2008, Wydawn. Literackie
in Polish - Wyd. 1.
Cover of: La carretera
La carretera
2007-11, Random House Mondadori
Hardcover in Catalan - Septima edicion
Cover of: La strada
La strada
2007, Einaudi
in Italian
Cover of: The Road
The Road
2006, Vintage International
Paperback in English - First Vintage International Edition (11)
Cover of: The Road
The Road
2006, Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.

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Translation of: The road.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54

The Physical Object

Pagination
266 p. ;
Number of pages
266

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25569795M
ISBN 10
8308041787
ISBN 13
9788308041789
OCLC/WorldCat
228837049

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When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.
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March 12, 2020 Edited by lisaBot moving edition(s) to primary work
March 12, 2020 Edited by Lisa Added new cover
July 30, 2014 Created by ImportBot Imported from Internet Archive item record