The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Finished: January 2024
Status: read
Tags: fiction post-apocalyptic american

Review

McCarthy strips the language down to almost nothing and finds, in that minimalism, a way to write about love that I haven't encountered anywhere else. A father and son walking through ash. That's the whole book. It is one of the most moving things I have ever read.

"He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."