By Cormac McCarthy
Oprah’s Book Club Selection
Genre: Post‑apocalyptic literary fiction / Survival drama
A father and his young son walk through the ash‑choked ruins of a world that has burned. Nothing grows. Nothing moves except the wind and the desperate. Armed with nothing but a shopping cart, a pistol with two bullets, and an unbreakable bond, they push south toward the faint hope of warmth—toward the idea, however fragile, that something human might still exist.
The land around them is a graveyard of the old world: abandoned houses, empty highways, and the constant threat of those who have turned to violence and cannibalism to survive. Yet in the midst of this devastation, the father clings to a single purpose—to keep the boy alive, to carry the “fire” of goodness in a world where goodness has almost vanished.
McCarthy’s prose is stark, poetic, and haunting, stripping the world down to its bones. What remains is a story of fierce love, moral endurance, and the terrifying question of what it means to remain human when everything human has been lost.
A bleak, beautiful, unforgettable survival story
A father‑son journey with mythic emotional weight
Sparse, powerful prose
A meditation on hope in a ruined world
By Cormac McCarthy
Oprah’s Book Club Selection
Genre: Post‑apocalyptic literary fiction / Survival drama
A father and his young son walk through the ash‑choked ruins of a world that has burned. Nothing grows. Nothing moves except the wind and the desperate. Armed with nothing but a shopping cart, a pistol with two bullets, and an unbreakable bond, they push south toward the faint hope of warmth—toward the idea, however fragile, that something human might still exist.
The land around them is a graveyard of the old world: abandoned houses, empty highways, and the constant threat of those who have turned to violence and cannibalism to survive. Yet in the midst of this devastation, the father clings to a single purpose—to keep the boy alive, to carry the “fire” of goodness in a world where goodness has almost vanished.
McCarthy’s prose is stark, poetic, and haunting, stripping the world down to its bones. What remains is a story of fierce love, moral endurance, and the terrifying question of what it means to remain human when everything human has been lost.
A bleak, beautiful, unforgettable survival story
A father‑son journey with mythic emotional weight
Sparse, powerful prose
A meditation on hope in a ruined world
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0307387895
ISBN13:9780307387899
Release Date:March 2006
Publisher:Vintage
Length:287 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"
