A father and his young son push a shopping cart down an ash-covered highway toward the coast, scavenging to survive and hiding from cannibals in an America destroyed by an unnamed apocalypse.
Books that mention The Road (2)
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers: “(epigraph) in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime … Cormac McCarthy, The Road”
Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “as in Cormac McCarthy's The Road, the novel's horrific imaginings almost become a perverse kind of sentimentality”