![]() ![]() ![]() A pistol with only a few bullets is their only defense besides flight. They possess only what they can scavenge to eat, and the rags they wear and the heat of their own bodies are all the shelter they have. The boy and his father hope to avoid the marauders, reach a milder climate, and perhaps locate some remnants of civilization still worthy of that name. Mummified corpses are their only benign companions, sitting in doorways and automobiles, variously impaled or displayed on pikes and tables and in cake bells, or they rise in frozen poses of horror and agony out of congealed asphalt. Through this nightmarish residue of America a haggard father and his young son attempt to flee the oncoming Appalachian winter and head towards the southern coast along carefully chosen back roads. ![]() Bands of cannibals roam the roads and inhabit what few dwellings remain intact in the woods. ![]() The sky is perpetually shrouded by dust and toxic particulates the seasons are merely varied intensities of cold and dampness. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. American fiction (fictional works by one author),įathers And Sons_Fiction Fiction_Dystopian Fiction_Science Fiction_General American Fiction (FictĬormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. ![]()
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