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The Road
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Narrator
- Tom Stechschulte
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 15 March 2007
- Run Time
- 6 hours 39 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.3 (3 reviews)
What to expect
User Reviews
Book 4.3
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
Bom livro. Muito sombrio. Deixa um estado de sobriedade existencial.
ALJT 2026-06-09 -
5.0 5.0
An outstanding narration of a bleak and haunting masterpiece
tgh 2025-08-24
Details
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Narrator
- Tom Stechschulte
- Duration
- 6 hours 39 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 March 2007
- ISBN
- 9781436100793
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Generational sagas
- Rating
- 4.3(3 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(3 reviews)
Synopsis
The 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.
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