The Road
by McCarthy, Cormac
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0307265439
- ISBN 13
- 9780307265432
- Seller
-
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Very Good or better in a like jacket. FFEP inscribed by owner, author John Metcalf. Minor bump to right front and bottom corners of boards. Minor scuffing front and back dusk jacket. Overall a very clean, tight copy.
Synopsis
The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and, apparently, almost all life on earth. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006, and was a Oprah's Book Club selection.
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Reviews
On Jan 14 2021, a reader said:
Absolute masterpiece. The two main characters were never once named. They were referred to as the man and the boy. Ommiting that detail gave an extra sense of dread to help the already dark plot.
On Oct 27 2010, TheRareBookLady said:
It came unannounced, uninvited. Sent to me in a plain box, came a package with some typical care pack items, and one of the most outstanding books I've read in a long time, "The Road", by Cormac McCarthy. My sister sent it because she had heard it was well recieved. Well recieved is an understatement. "The Road" is not simply a book, it's an experience. A post-apocalyptic story of a man and his son, truding through the ashen country, towards the coast in hopes of finding some civilization. Some say "The Road" is just another masterpiece to add to his list of fantastic works. I'm not familiar with all of McCarthy's works, but I can attest that it is an incredibly short list in existence, displaying books that leave you changed for weeks after reading the book. I spoke to many who were not necessarily bold readers and even felt a bit disturbed for a while after finishing the book. For those of us who are bold readers, this is intriguing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Biblioasis (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013196
- Title
- The Road
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0307265439
- ISBN 13
- 9780307265432
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 241
- LCCN
- 2006023629
- X weight
- 0 kg
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Biblioasis
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Windsor, Ontario
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signed books, the eighteenth century, and books about books. Open since 1998, we
have a large selection of history, literature, philosophy, art, music, religion,
science, and technical books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...