The Road is a lean, plain-spoken dark, almost nightmarish tale of the future.   The telling is very restrained, repetitive, and yet beautiful, tender, and rewarding.    There are really only two characters and we only know them as the father and the son.   There is despair, terror, horror, and bleakness, but there is also love, compassion, hope, and caring.

In a world “like the onset of cold glaucoma dimming away the world,” they refuse to abandon the belief in a better place.   It is both frightening and inspiring, with the love of the father and his son as the symbol of humanity’s last stand.   The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and its impact will remain engraved on our hearts for as long as we also believe in mankind.

Very highly recommended – 4.9 out of 5.0 stars4.9