The Book of the Decade

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The prose is deliberately accessible, the warning alltoo-contemporary, and the novel gripping beyond belief.

— The Telegraph

The Road is not a science fiction, not an allegory, and not a critique of the way we live now, or of the-way-we-might-live-if-we-keep-on-living-the-way-we-live-now. It poses a simpler question, more taxing for the imagination and far closer to the primary business of fiction-making: what would this world without people look like, feel like? These questions McCarthy answers magnificently.

— The New Republic

You should read this book because it is exactly what a book about our future ought to be.

— Esquire