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. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres and has also written plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture...
- 末日废土中父子相依为命的求生之旅
- 在绝望世界里坚守人性与爱的信念
- 普利策奖得主科马克麦卡锡的巅峰之作
- 喜欢严肃文学与后启示录题材的读者
- 能接受极简冷峻文风及沉重氛围的读者
- 对人性深度探索及存在主义哲学感兴趣者
- 做好心理准备，全书基调极度压抑苍凉
- 建议阅读英文原版以体会独特的语言质感
- 无需期待传统情节，重在感受生存状态
- 文字极具画面感，读后令人久久难以平静
- 父爱是黑暗末世中唯一温暖的精神火种
- 风格独特，虽难读但被誉为一代人的神作
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- "记住，你放进脑子里的那些东西，永远都会留在那里，他说。你放之前可能该考虑一下。 有些事也能忘记，对不对？ 对。你忘记了想记住的，记住了想忘记的。"
- "不过有一件事我可以肯定，你一个人是绝对活不下去的。因为我知道反正我自己活不了。一个人孤零零的，即便是随便抓只鬼也要凑合着做伴。传给它生命的气息，再说些甜言蜜语给它听。给它吃些虚幻的面包，用你的身体保护它，不让它受伤。而我，我只希望可以永远消失，我一心一意就想这样。"
- "你做过的最勇敢的事情是什么？ 他朝路上吐了一口带血的唾沫。今天早上起床，他说。 真的吗？"
- "You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you to forget."
- "没有待办事项，每个日子都听从自己的旨意。时间，时间里没有后来，现在就是后来。"
- "一支穿着网球鞋的队伍，徒步行走。手持三英尺长的棍子，外面包了皮套。手腕上系了绳索。有几根棍子的终端穿着长短不一的链条，充做武器。他们丁零当啷地走过去了，身子向前倾着，就像上了发条的玩具。可以看到长须，呼吸时喷出的白气透出了口罩。嘘，他轻声提醒。嘘。后面跟着的大部队扛了标枪，或长矛，矛头绑了丝带做装饰。矛上长长的尖刃是用卡车铁皮，在内陆简陋的工坊里制造出来的。男孩儿胳膊蒙着脸卧在那里，吓得不轻。这帮人走了两百多英尺远了，地仍在轻轻颤动。步履沉重。队伍后面跟着数辆车，由套了枷的奴隶往前拉，车上堆积了作战所需物资，紧接着是女人，大约有十二个，有几个大着肚子，最后是补充这群慰安女的孪童队伍，纵然天气严"
- "记住，你放进脑子里的那些东西，永远都会留在那里，他说。你放之前可能该考虑一下。 有些事也能忘记，对不对？ 对。你忘记了想记住的，记住了想忘记的。"
- "她说孩子就是死亡和他之间的屏障。"
