The Road

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, an unnamed father and son are making their way across a darkened, ash-covered America, in search of food. The country is populated by bands of cannibals and the pair must evade them while keeping a moral compass focused on what's human in a time of extreme despair. McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for this haunting tale, and it's been called one of the most important environmental books ever written. - Lucy

The searing, post-apocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged, nuclear landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is grey. 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 other's world, are sustained by love.

Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2007 

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007

Quill Awards: General Fiction 2007

Shortlisted for RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008