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The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and nearly all life.
The Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic survival film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. The film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The novel follows Bobby Western, a salvage diver, across the Gulf of Mexico and the American South. [2] [1] Western is haunted by his father's contributions to the development of the atomic bomb, [2] and tormented by his inability to save his sister Alicia—the protagonist of the novel's proto-sequel, Stella Maris—from suicide, which happens a decade before The Passenger takes place. [3]
American author, known for novels ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’, died at his home in New Mexico
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road ...
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The Crossing is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, published in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf.The book is the second installment of McCarthy's "Border Trilogy," following the award-winning All the Pretty Horses (1992), and preceding Cities of the Plain, where the protagonists of both novels work together on a ranch in southern New Mexico.
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, postapocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres. His works often include graphic depictions of violence, and his writing style is ...