The Road by McCarthy, Cormac - 2006

New York: Vintage Books, 2006. First Vintage International Edition . Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION STATED, Near fine black trade paperback. Slight wear. (2006), 8vo, [16], 5-287pp. [5], First printing # line to 1. James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Oprah's Book Club (nominee), "A 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 landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They 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." Fantasticfiction