![]() After a catastrophe of almost apocalyptic consequences (a catastrophe which is never detailed but appears to have been connected to an environmental disaster), the country has been left a devastated and burning wasteland. The Road follows an unnamed father and son as they journey across a ravaged America. Although it has taken me an inexcusably long time to get around to it, I finally ordered in a library copy of McCarthy’s The Road – on the basis that: (1) it had been recommended as a good starting point and (2) if it failed to hook me, I at least had a Viggo Mortensen adaptation to look forward to. ![]() McCarthy is hailed as one of the world’s greatest contemporary writers and his major works, including No Country for Old Men, constantly feature on lists of the best modern novels. His is a name that I have come across consistently for a number of years now, leaving me with a mental note-to-self that this was an author for whom I should be looking out. ![]() For those of you following The Book Habit on Facebook, you may recall that a couple of weeks ago I put out a call for Cormac McCarthy recommendations. ![]()
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