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The Road
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Author:
McCarthy, Cormac
Narrator:
Stechschulte, Tom
Published:
Recorded Books, Inc. 2006
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Lexile measure:
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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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Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
08/28/2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781449897093
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 4, 8 Points
Lexile measure:
670
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Cormac McCarthy. (2006). The Road. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

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Cormac McCarthy. 2006. The Road. Recorded Books, Inc.

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Cormac McCarthy, The Road. Recorded Books, Inc, 2006.

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Cormac McCarthy. The Road. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2006.

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