Rating: 5/5
Review:
Absolutely brilliant
The Road scarcely needs another review from me, but I will say that
all the rave reviews are justified. I thought it was an absolutely
brilliant book.
Set in a
post-apocalyptic world, two unnamed characters – a man and his boy
– walk south through an unnamed country to try to escape the worst
of the coming winter. All is burnt and wholly desolate and they
survive on the few unlooted scraps they can find. The world is
entirely lawless and the portrait of the two preserving their mutual
love and trying to remain humane and compassionate to the few people
left is very haunting. It’s a bleak read, but a magnificent one;
the prose manages to be almost flat in tone and poetic at the same
time and a wholly believable world is created largely by suggestion
as almost nothing is explained but hideous truths show through.
I couldn’t stop
reading The Road. It is powerful, haunting, moving and utterly
compelling. It’s a masterclass in writing and a terrific read –
very warmly recommended indeed.
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