The Road

A father and his young son walk alone through burned and ruined America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and those living off it, or trying to. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the surviving stalkers of the road, the clothes they are wearing, a shopping cart of scavenged food – and each other, living out a poetic nightmare that is both heartless and heartfelt. 307p.