The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner

A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape covered with "the ashes of the late world." The man can still remember the time before. The boy knows only this time, but even that is hard to register. There is nothing for them but survival - they are "each the other's world entire" - and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender, despairing and even rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, "The Road" is nothing less than a fiercely haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying and irreducible power of filial love. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2007. 287p. Pap.